Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701

Sale 2701 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Josephus, Flavius (37-c. 100 CE)
The Famous and Memorable Workes of Josephus, a Man of Much Honour and Learning among the Jewes.

London: Printed [by Peter Short] at the charges of G. Bishop, S. Waterson, P. Short, & Tho. Adams, 1602.

First edition in English, folio, translated by Thomas Lodge; printer's device within large woodcut frame on title page, a smaller device on final leaf, first preliminary leaf torn with loss of fore-margin and several words of the dedication, title page with chips and tears, mounted; bound in full contemporary English calfskin with later endleaves (worn and bumped, lacking ties, boards attached; preliminary leaves and final leaves of the table with staining and tears); 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.

STC 14809; ESTC S112613.