Flavius Josephus; Roger L’Estrange, tr: The Works of Flavius Josephus: Translated into English By Sir Roger L Estrange, Knight. Viz. I. The Antiquities of the Jews, in Twenty Books. II. Their Wars with the Romans, in Seven Books. III. The Life of Josephus written by Himself. IV. His Book against Apion, in Defence of the Antiquities of the Jews, in Two Parts. V. The Martyrdom of the Maccabees. As also; VI. Philo s Embassy from the Jews of Alexandria to Caius Caligula. / Carefully Revis d, and Compar d with the Original Greek. / To which are added, Two Discourses, and several Remarks and Observations upon Josephus. Together with Maps, Sculptures, and Accurate Indexes

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Flavius Josephus; Roger L’Estrange, tr : The Works of Flavius Josephus: Translated into English By Sir Roger L Estrange, Knight. Viz. I. The Antiquities of the Jews, in Twenty Books. II. Their Wars with the Romans, in Seven Books. III. The Life of Josephus written by Himself. IV. His Book against Apion, in Defence of the Antiquities of the Jews, in Two Parts. V. The Martyrdom of the Maccabees. As also; VI. Philo s Embassy from the Jews of Alexandria to Caius Caligula. / Carefully Revis d, and Compar d with the Original Greek. / To which are added, Two Discourses, and several Remarks and Observations upon Josephus. Together with Maps, Sculptures, and Accurate Indexes

Richard Sare, London, c. 1702

Contemporary calf tooled boards, expertly rebacked with spine in seven compartments of raised gilt bands, gilt text on two and seven. , Title corners professionally reinforced. Signature ex-libris in period hand on second and third-to-last leaves. A fine copy with seven plates and maps. Text and plates are clean and crisp.
Several mispaginations, some serious, but with no apparent loss:

89 marked as “90”,
119 marked as “117”,
125 marked as “123”,
128 marked as “118”,
131-148 page #s missing but no apparent loss,
248-249 marked as “348-349”,
256 marked as “265”,
288 marked as “290”,
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555-584 page #s missing but no apparent loss,
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947 marked as “997”,
950 marked as “1000”,
At pp. 980, as well as at 987, only one side of the leaf is paginated, but text runs continuously on both sides,
991 marked as “992”
, Folio., P. (4), blank, frontis, title, blank, preface (2), 1-18, 1-130, 149-554, 585-596, 745-980, (1), 981, (1), 982, (1), 983-987, (1), 988, (1), 989, (1), 990, (1), 991-1106, index 1107-1130, (4)., With three copper plates including the engraved frontispiece, as well as four folding maps.

For his translation of Josephus’s works, L’Estrange earned £600, a large sum at the time. He was a well-known royalist, characterized by Dr. Johnson as “the first writer on record who regularly enlisted himself under the banners of a party for pay, and fought for it through right and wrong” (DNB). He published several political pamphlets, and later wrote and published a widely-read (and often-abused) periodical called the “Observator”. However, “L’Estrange is seen to best literary advantage in his translations.”, DNB XI:997-1007.

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