JOSEPHUS, Flavius. Les sept livres ... de la guerre et captivit des Iuifz; traduitz des grec, et mis en francoys par N. de Herberay, Paris: Ian Longis [colophon: par Estienne Groulleau libraire, pour luy, Iean Longis. Vincent Sertenas & Iean Bonfons], 1557. Small 2, woodcut device to title, 94 woodcut illustrations from 24 blocks, woodcut initials (lower corner of A4 soiled, lightly browned and spotted), late 17th-century sheep (very rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Allen Lee Sessoms, blind-stamped library stamp on title.

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JOSEPHUS, Flavius. Les sept livres ... de la guerre et captivit des Iuifz; traduitz des grec, et mis en francoys par N. de Herberay, Paris: Ian Longis [colophon: par Estienne Groulleau libraire, pour luy, Iean Longis. Vincent Sertenas & Iean Bonfons], 1557. Small 2, woodcut device to title, 94 woodcut illustrations from 24 blocks, woodcut initials (lower corner of A4 soiled, lightly browned and spotted), late 17th-century sheep (very rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Allen Lee Sessoms, blind-stamped library stamp on title.

Second edition of the complete Herberay translation. The work was published for the same group of publishers and issued under the individual imprint of each publisher. Harvard Catalogue 331; NUC locates 4 copies; BM STC French, p. 246.

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