J.8
Josephus.
Eng. by Whiston.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 117, as above.
JOSEPHUS,
Flavius.
The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish Historian. Translated from the Original Greek, according to Havercamp’s accurate Edition. Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, with the Appendix, or Life of Josephus, written by
himself: Seven Books of the Jewish War: and Two Books against Apion. Illustrated With new Plans and Descriptions of the Tabernacle
of Moses; and of the Temples of Solomon, Zorobabel, Herod, and Ezekiel; and with correct Maps of Judea and Jerusalem . . .
By William Whiston, M. A. Some time Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.
London: Printed by
W. Bowyer for the Author: and are to be sold by
John Whiston, Bookseller,
MDCCXXVII. [1737.]
DS116 .J7
First Edition of this translation.
Folio. 632 leaves, folded engraved map and two folded plates all mounted; 2 additional leaves in signature dd contain a
Postscript by the translator; at the end is
A Compleat Chronological Catalogue of Mr. Whiston’s Writings
on 3 pages, with a short Publisher’s advertisement, and Directions to the Bookbinder.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in the first upper case alphabet.
William Whiston, 1667-1752, English divine and mathematician, and Goldsmith’s model for the Vicar of Wakefield, was a friend of Sir Isaac
Newton, whom he succeeded as Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, and whose chronological system he attacked (see
no. 135).
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J.9
Decreta Romanorum pro Judaeis facta. Krebsii.
8
vo.
Lipsiae.
1768.
1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 59, as above.
KREBS,
Johann Tobias.
Decreta Romanorvm pro Ivdæis facta e Isoepho collecta et Commentario Historico-Grammatico-Critico Illvstrata. Adivnctvm est
Decretvm Atheniensivm pro Hyrcano Pontifice M. Ivdæorvm Factvm Commentario Illvstratvm a Io. Tobia Krebsio Illvstris Moldani Rectore.
Lipsiæ: Svmtibvs
Caspari Fritsch,
cIɔIɔcclxvIII. [1768.]
DS116. J56
First Edition.
8vo. 237 leaves.
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie XVII, page 98.
Not in Graesse.
Not in Ebert.
Bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt, marbled endpapers, m.e.; initialled by him at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress
1815 bookplate.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue with the price
4+2.
Johann Tobias Krebs, 1718-1782, German classical and Hebrew scholar, was one of the earliest pupils of J. A. Ernesti, to whom this book is dedicated.
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