Author: Josephus, Fl. Gilb. Genebrard [editor]
Title: HISTOIRE DE FL. JOSEPHUS Sacrificateur Hebreu reveue sur le Grec illustree de Chronologie Annotations & tables tant des chapitres que des Principales Matieres. [Tome Premier =DES ANTIQUITEZ JUDAIQUES + Tome Seconde =DE LA GUERRE DES JUIFS ]
Description: Paris, Arnould Cotinet 1646 copperplate illustrations by Jacque Picart + woodcut head-pieces & figural and floral initial letters . folio 2 VOLUMES IN ONE full vellum [split to head & foot of lower cover repaired/corners bit worn] Large [near half page] illustration on titlepage of Josephus writing in his library +[2p=dedication] +[8p=Preface & chronology] + [6p=chapters] + [4p= Josephus' Preface + Authors consulted] +720pp + [40p= index] Titlepage to Vol. 2 with large printer's mark of tree in landscape with double snakes coiled around the trunk +[6p=chapters] + 468pp + [16=index] A clean wide-margined copy with side notes. Three leaves with lower corner torn off and neat old repair with manuscript text supplied. Some worming, mainly marginal but 4 leaves just touching text and archivally repaired. A few marginal marks. A few pages with minor staining or foxing and the fore-edge and a few, less than a dozen, marginal markings. At the end of the second volume there is a pale damp tide mark but this has not caused the pages to be damaged, they are crisp and supple. Gilbert Genebrard was one of the foremost Hebrewists of the french renaissance. A really nice clean folio copy of the two Josephus works.

Keywords: Jewish History, religion Jews


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