JOSEPHUS, Flavius

De antiquitate Judaica. De bello Judaico (et alia opera, trad. Rufinus Aquileiensis).

      Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis, for Octavianus scotus 23 Oct 1486, Venice - Contemporary morocco over wooden boards with clasps (head and tail of spine neatly repaired) tooled in blind rules Folio . A very handsome copy of this beautifully printed incunable edition of Josephus' Works. It is the second Venice edition of this version by Rudolfus Aquileiensis. Edited with Flavius Josephus' biography by Hieronymus Squarzaficus. A very well preserved example in it's original blind tooled binding and with the owner's annotations; also all the blanks are present and as noted it is a very wide margined copy with the deckle visible on many leaves. A very handsome copy which has all four of its blank leaves and in it's original blind tooled binding with clasps 2 parts in 1 volume. [278] leaves (including the 4 blanks). Roman type; capital spaces. With neat marginal annotations in a contemporary hand and on the front blank leaf. Collector's embossed stamp on second and last leaf. Some marginal stains, a few tiny worm holes in last few leaves; very wide margined copy (partly uncut). Title penned on fore-edge. § Hain-Copinger 9454; GW M15153; BMC V, 415; Polain 4498; Goff J 486. [Attributes: Hard Cover]