Religions

1777 · 72122011086 — Printed for Fielding and Walker Pater Noster Row London 1777. Early Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Full title: "The Works of Flavius Josephus. Containing I The Life of Josephus as Written by Himself. II The Antiquity of the Jewish People; with a Defense of those Antiquities in answer to Apion. III The History of the Martyrdom of the Maccabees; and the Wars of the Jews with the Neighbouring Nations till the Final Destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman Power. IV Account of Philo's Ambassy from the Jews of Alexandria to the Emperor Caius Caligula." Leather is marked and rubbed and split over all joints - covers are only held by cords and joints are fragile. Corners are bumped and well-scuffed. Title pages and frontis's are a little ragged smudge marked and vol II frontis is tipped onto inside of front cover. Both front end-papers are missing both rear end-papers are creased. Internal binding is sound printer/publisher binding error with page 107/108 in Volume I printed back to front. Light foxing to pages facing plates but pages are otherwise clean and bright. There is minor worm damage on the lower margins of some pages in Volume II. Sixty-seven of the seventy plates described in the "Directions for Placing the Plates" are present but not all in the described place one being in the wrong volume. Two plates are fold out - the Temple of Solomon plate has significant creasing. Plates include a number of maps including one fold-out map ." The missing plate are Jacob Herod and Pilate. Early Edition in this translation. 2-volume set complete. No dust jacket as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 72122011086. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. Printed for Fielding and Walker, Pater Noster Row hardcover