Josephus Flavius (37 c 100 CE) Periocha Viginti Librori Anti

Sale 2701 - Lot 88

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Josephus, Flavius (37-c. 100 CE)
Periocha Viginti Librori Antiquitatis Iudaicae. [Latin Works].

Milan: Apud Alexandrum Minutianum Ludovico Hornk id in primis Suadente, 10 January 1514.

Folio, an uncommon early imprint from Milan; colophon on z8; the same leaf also signed by Johannes Baptista Furnus in 1586, marginalia in a similar hand dotted here and there in the text; another early signature on front fly leaf, "D. Jo: Petri Pythii D. Aneunii filii liber"; bound in modern half sheepskin with white paper-covered boards, parchment corners, old ink title to bottom page edges (insignificant marginal worming at beginning and end, title gutter reinforced, last few leaves remargined, otherwise generally crisp and clean, with large margins); this copy sold in these rooms in 1992; 13 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.

Adams J-353.

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