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.
Contributors: Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen.; Abraham ben David, ha-Levi, ca. 1110-ca. 1180.; Josephus, Flavius.; Morwen, Peter, 1530?-1573?, tr.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666, ed.
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
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Joseph ben Gorion, -- ha-Kohen -- Portraits.; Jews -- History.; Jerusalem -- Siege, 70 A.D.
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 Aþ́ Bı́ Cþ́ D-Zı́ 2A℗ø (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.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39767; 2226)