GIUSEPPE FLAVIO. Giosefo il quale... contiene... Lot n° 35

JOSEPH, Flavius. Joppa il quale, con memorabil esempio della diuina giustitia, contiene l'assedio, et ultima destruttione di Gierusalem & tutto 'l regno de gli Hebrei, sotto Vespasiano, e Tito... Venice, Bonello, 1552 8vo; 153x105 mm.; Parchment binding with manuscript title on spine and endpapers. 328 cc. Typographic mark with spider in center of cloth; Woodcut initials. Fine copy. Rare sixteenth-century edition of Josephus Flavius' The Jewish War, translated from the Greek into the vernacular. The seven-book work by the Hebrew historiographer Flavius Josephus, published between 75 and 79 CE in Hellenistic Greek, recounts the history of Israel from the conquest of Jerusalem by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (164 BCE) to the end of the First Jewish War. 8vo; 153x105 mm.; Vellum binding with handwritten title on spine and ribs. L. 328. Printer's device with spider at the center of the spiderweb; woodcut initial letters. Nice specimen. Rare 16th-century edition of Josephus Flavius' Jewish War, translated from Greek into the vernacular. The work in seven books by the Jewish historiographer Josephus, published between 75 and 79 AD in Hellenistic Greek, tells the story of Israel from the conquest of Jerusalem by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (164 BC) to the end of the First Jewish War.