Antiquitatum Judaicarum libri XX

Flavius Josephus; Flavius - Josephus; Sigmund Gelen; Desiderius Erasmus; Sigismundus Gelenius

Basel: Frobenium et Nicol. Episcopium (Froben), 1559

Bound in contemporary 1/2 vellum.  Worn cover edges. Collated: 10 (of 12 preliminary pages), 886 pages, blank, [16] leaves.  Lacking 2nd preliminary leaf and top half of 3rd.  Handsome Froben printer's device on title and final leaf.  Internally clean.  Larger figurative initials at the start of each section and smaller historiated initials throughout. All edges red. Not in Adams, (See Adams J 360 for first edition of 1534) (De bello Judaico; Contra Apionem; De imperio rationis)  Later Latin edition of one of the main works of the ancient historian Flavius Josephus (38-100) on Roman-Jewish history.