拍品 352
352
JOSEPHUS, Flavius. Historien und Bücher: Von alten Jüdischen Geschichten, zwentzig, sambt eynem von seinem Leben: Vom Jüdischen Krieg, und der Statt Jerusalem, und des gantzen Lands zerstörung. Translated by Conrad Lautenbach. Strassburg: Theodosius Rihel, 1575.
JOSEPHUS, Flavius. Historien und Bücher: Von alten Jüdischen Geschichten, zwentzig, sambt eynem von seinem Leben: Vom Jüdischen Krieg, und der Statt Jerusalem, und des gantzen Lands zerstörung. Translated by Conrad Lautenbach. Strassburg: Theodosius Rihel, 1575.

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JOSEPHUS, Flavius. Historien und Bücher: Von alten Jüdischen Geschichten, zwentzig, sambt eynem von seinem Leben: Vom Jüdischen Krieg, und der Statt Jerusalem, und des gantzen Lands zerstörung. Translated by Conrad Lautenbach. Strassburg: Theodosius Rihel, 1575.

2o (346 x 218 mm). Title printed in red and black with historiated woodcut border by Tobias Stimmer, numerous woodcuts in text by Hans Christoph Stimmer after Tobias Stimmer, large printer's device on colophon leaf. Large 18th-century colored woodcut portrait of Jesus Christ on front paste-down. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, brass center and corner pieces and brass catch plates (catches missing). Provenance: Small armorial library stamp on front cover; L.H. Bloest (ownership inscription).

First appearance of this series of woodcuts designed by Tobias Stimmer and cut by his brother Christoph. Conrad Lautenbach's German translation of Josephus first appeared at Frankfurt in 1569, illustrated by woodcuts of Jost Amman. For Flavius Josephus as an independent source for the life of Christ, see the note to lot 164.

[Bound with:]

HEGESIPPUS. Fünff Bücher: Vom Jüdischen Krieg, und endlicher zerstörung der Heylingen und gewaltigen Statt Jerusalem. Translated from the Latin by Conrad Lautenbach. Strassburg: Theodosius Rihel, 1575.

2o. Title printed in red and black with elaborate woodcut border signed "TS," woodcut illustrations in text, large woodcut printer's device on colophon leaf.