"Precious In Folio Illustrated In White Vellum: "flavius Josephus Jan Luyken Alle De Werken". 1704"
I am presenting here a rare, extensively illustrated Dutch book from the Regency period: in a rare copy in ivory vellum (pigskin) with cold-stamped ribbed spine and folio size. This remarkable book "Flavius Josephus Jan Luyken- Alle de Werken" - 1704. A remarkable work: containing twenty books of Jewish antiquities, the story of his own life, the history of the wars of the Jews against the Romans, his two books against Apion, and his description of the martyrdom of the Machabeen. Where does the Embassy of Philo in den Keyzer Kaligula come from, everything since the transposition of M. d'Andilly into Dutch transferred by W. Séwel. Also added are the five books of Egesippus on the Jewish wars and the destruction of Jerusalem.... In Amsterdam. Pieter Mortier, 1704 - 3 parts in one volume, frontispiece title and numerous exceptional figures in full double pages on removable tabs and in the text, abundant work, typographical prowess for this exceptional book...