The whole genuine and complete works of Flavius Josephus, the learned and authentic Jewish historian and celebrated warrior
Subtitle: containing ... translated from the original in the Greek language ... to which is added, various useful indexes ... also a continuation of the history of the Jews, from Josephus down to the present time including a period of more than one thousand seven hundred years ...
By: by George Henry Maynard, L.L.D.
Contributors: Maynard, George Henry.; Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1879.; Doolittle, Amos, 1754-1832.; Kimpton, Edward, fl. 1765-1813.; Tiebout, Cornelius, 1777-1832.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed and sold by Archibald Woodruff and John Turner ...
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 723
Subjects: Jews -- History; Jews -- Antiquities
Notes: LC copy formerly owned by Mr. and Mrs. Horace L. Jacobs III.
"Illustrated with marginal references and notes ... by the Rev. Edward Kimpton ... Embellished with sixty beautiful engravings, taken from original drawings of Messrs. Metz, Stothard, and Corbould, members of the Royal Academy, and engraved by American artists."
Numbers 265-268, 701-702 omitted in paging.
First issued in parts, New York, 1792-4.
The engravings are copperplates by C. Tiebout, A. Doolittle, and Anderson.
Signatures: [A]² B-C² ²B-2U² 2W² 2X-4U² 4W² 4X-8P².
"List of subscribers' names": [2] p. at end.
LC copy imperfect: t.p. and several other pages mutilated, with considerable loss of text.
LC copy is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Wolfson.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. The antiquities of the Jews, in twenty books, with their wars, memorable transactions, remarkable occurrences, their various turns of glory and misery, prosperity and adversity, from the creation of the world; title: II. The wars of the Jews with the Romans, from their commencement to the final destruction of Jerusalem by Titus in the reign of Vespasian, in seven books; title: III. The book of Josephus against Apion in defence of the Jewish antiquities, in two parts; title: IV. The martyrdoms of the Maccabees; title: V. The embassy of Philo from the Jews of Alexandria, to the Emperor Caius Caligula; title: VI. The life of Flavius Josephus, written by himself; title: VII. Testimonies of Josephus concerning our blessed Saviour, St. John the Baptist, &c. clearly vindicated.