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Hegesippus, (Flavius, Josephus)
Egesippi historiographi inter scriptores ecclesiasticos vetustissimi, de rebus a Iudaeorum principibus in obsidione fortiter gestis, deque excidio Hierosolymorum, aliarumque civitatum adicentium, libri V..
Cologne, s.n. (in fine: Eucharius Cervicorum, at the expense of G. Hittorp), 1525.
[8], 77, [1]. Folio 310mm x 210mm. In a later paper covered board binding. Wear to extremities, splitting to head/tail of spine. Stamps to title. With numerous woodcut-initials throughout. Small singular worm tract to top margin every page throughout - with a second singular tract for the last 7 leaves of the work.
Title in a very beautiful frame engraved on wood (Cleopatra lying down; the tyrant Dionysius standing, etc ...) which is attributed to Holbein, the headband of the first text sheet and its framing to A. Woensam, and the historiated initials at the beginning of the chapters to Albert Dürer.
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