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JOSEPHUS, Flavius (ca. 37 - ca. 100 A.D.). Opera, in Greek. Ed. Arnoldus Peraxylus Arlenius. Basel: Hieronymus Frobenius and Nicolaus Episcopius, 1544.
Median 2° (330 x 220 mm.). Collation: *6 (1r title in red and black and printer's woodcut device in red, 2r editor's Latin preface to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza); a-z A-Z Aa-Hh6 Ii4 (De Antiquitate Judaica); Kk-Zz AA-MM6 (De Bello Judaico, MM6r colophon and register, MM6v printer's device). Greek type, initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Tiny marginal wormhole at beginning and end, light staining in places.) Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over oak boards (rubbed, foot of spine repaired, one clasp defective). Provenance: M.A. Haring, purchased at a Zurich auction (inscription); I.N. Landseer, Kent 1814 (inscription); Lord Harewood.
EDITIO PRINCEPS. Adams J-351; Hoffmann II, 443.
Median 2° (330 x 220 mm.). Collation: *6 (1r title in red and black and printer's woodcut device in red, 2r editor's Latin preface to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza); a-z A-Z Aa-Hh6 Ii4 (De Antiquitate Judaica); Kk-Zz AA-MM6 (De Bello Judaico, MM6r colophon and register, MM6v printer's device). Greek type, initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Tiny marginal wormhole at beginning and end, light staining in places.) Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over oak boards (rubbed, foot of spine repaired, one clasp defective). Provenance: M.A. Haring, purchased at a Zurich auction (inscription); I.N. Landseer, Kent 1814 (inscription); Lord Harewood.
EDITIO PRINCEPS. Adams J-351; Hoffmann II, 443.