Josephus (Thompson & Price trans.): The Works containing, I. The life of Josephus, as written by himself. II. The antiquities of the Jewish people; with a defence 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. The whole newly translated from the Greek by Ebenezer Thompson and William Charles Price [...]

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Josephus (Thompson & Price trans.): : The Works containing, I. The life of Josephus, as written by himself. II. The antiquities of the Jewish people; with a defence 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. The whole newly translated from the Greek by Ebenezer Thompson and William Charles Price [...]

2 vols. 4to. First edition of this translation. pp. 719, [i]; [ii], 644, [xxxvi] index & list of subscribers. + 6 engraved maps by Thomas Bowen & Jonathan Lodge and 60 (of 64 called for) full page engraved plates (4 plates have not been bound in: Jewish crucifixion, Susannah and the Elders, a jewess suffering martyrdom and the murder of Simon). Occasional spotting. Contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed, with old but crude repairs to the headcaps (which have been strengthened with strips of calf) and two of the corners. Early chippendale-style bookplate of Jonathan Sandbach, surgeon, of Chester; twentieth-century bookplate of Dutch collector Fritz Michael Meyer.

Josephus supplies an important first-hand account of the Jewish revolt (AD 66-70) and provides valuable insights into first-century Judaism and the context for early Christianity., Lowndes 1236.

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