‎FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS (Joseph ben Mathitjahu, 37-100).‎
‎Historien und Bücher: von alten Juedischen Geschichten zwentzig sambt eynem von seinem leben: vom Juedischen krieg siben: von der Juden altem herkommen wider apionem grammaticum zwey: von meysterschafft der vernunfft und der Machabeer marter eyns. [6] 524 [20] ff. Title in red and black within woodcut border, 120 text woodcuts, printer's device at end. (Strasbourg, Theodosius Rihel, 1590). Bound with: HEGESIPPUS. Fuenff buecher vom Jüdischen Krieg und endlicher zerstörung der herrlichen und gewaltigen Statt Jerusalem. [6], 118, [6] ff. Title printed in red and black within woodcut border and 21 text woodcuts. [Ibid., idem].‎

‎2 works in one volume folio (370x240 mm). Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, dated 1591 on front cover. Somewhat rubbed, chafed at corners, clasps gone. Toned throughout. ‎

Reference : B352245

‎Two important works of Hellenistic Judaism with the outstanding woodcuts by Tobias Stimmer. Seventh Strasbourg edition in the translation of Conrad Lautenbach, as always printed together with the Hegesippus (which has no imprint of its own). The woodcuts by Tobias Stimmer engraved by C. van Sichem and by Chr. Stimmer belong to the most beautiful examples of the art of German woodcutting from the second half of the 16th century (cf. Andresen). USTC 657549 and 642209; VD16 ZV 17562 and H 1266; Muller III, 550, 89 (part I) and cf. 549, 82 (part II); Fürst II, 122; Goedeke II, 319, 5; Andresen III, 155 a and b.‎