The wonderful, and most deplorable history, of the later times of the Jews
Subtitle: with the destruction of the city of Jerusalem. : Which history begins where the Holy Scriptures do end
By: By Josephus ben Gorion. ; Whereunto is added, a brief of the ten captivities; with the pourtraict [sic] of the Roman rams, and engines of battery, &c. As also of Jerusalem; with the fearful and the presaging apparitions that were seen in the air before her ruins. Moreover, there is a parallel of the late times, & crimes in London, with those in Jerusalem
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 39767; Early American imprints -- no. 2226
Publisher: Re-printed by John Allen, for Nicholas Boone, at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill.
Published: 1722
Place of publication: Boston, in New-England
Language: eng
Translated from: heb
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Portraits; Jews; History
Other titles: Wars of the Jews.
Work titles: Josippon English
Notes: Peter Morwen's translation, edited by James Howell, of Abraham ben David's abstract of book 3 of Sefer ha-kabalah, a disputed work known as Yosippon or Josippon, and erroneously attributed to Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen, and to Flavius Josephus. The translation was first published in London, 1558, under the title: A compendious and most marveylous history of the latter times of the Jewes commune weale. Cf. LC, DNB (Norwen), and Jewish encyc.

Running title: The wars of the Jews.

Epistle dedicatory signed: James Howel.

Frontispiece portrait of "Josephus Ben-Goron, the learned & warlike Jew."

Though the title page is dated 1718, a bookseller's advertisement (p. [340]) is dated 1722. Edwin Wolf 2nd conjectures that the sheets (save the last page) were printed in 1718 but, owing to competion from a 1719 Boston edition of Flavius Josephus's The wars of the Jews, not published until 1722. See his: "The first book of Jewish authorship printed in America." American Jewish historical quarterly 60 (1971): 229-234.

Signatures: pi1 A⁴ B⁸ C⁴ D-Z⁸ 2A² (pi1 recto blank; H4 missigned A4).

READEX NOTE: An imperfect copy of the present edition was mistakenly filmed as Evans 2226.

Bristol B627

Shipton & Mooney 39767

Shipton & Mooney 2226

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Amer. Jewish bib., 16