The Whole Genuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus, the Celebrated Warlike, Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian. Containing: I. The Antiquities of the Jews in Twenty Books; with Their Wars, Memorable Transactions, Authentic and Remarkable Occurrences, Their Various Turns of Glory and Misery, of Prosperity and Adversity, &c. from the Creation of the World. 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. III. The Book of Josephus Against Apion, in Defence of the Jewish Antiquities. In Two Parts. IV. The Martyrdoms of the Maccabees. V. The Embassy of Philo from the Jews of Alexandria to the Emperor Caius Caligula. VI. The Life of Flavius Josephus, Written by Himself. VII. The Testimonies of Josephus Concerning Our Blessed Saviour, St. John the Baptist, &c. Clearly Vindicated. The Whole Translated from the Original in the Greek Language, and Diligently Revised and Compared with the Writings of Contemporary Authors of Different Nations on the Subject; All Tending to Prove the Authenticity of the Work. To Which Will Be Now First Added, a Continuation of the History of the Jews, from Josephus Down to the Present Time, Including a Period of More Than 1700 Years. Containing an Account of Their Dispersion into the Various Parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and America, Their Different Persecutions, Transactions, Various Occurrences, and Present State Throughout the Known World. Also Various Useful Indexes, Particularly of the Countries, Cities, Towns, Villages, Seas, Rivers, Mountains, Lakes, &c. Likewise Tables of the Jewish Coins, Weights, Measures, &c. Used in the Time of the Author. With a Great Variety of Other Interesting and Authentic Particulars Never Given in Any Work of the Like Kind Either in the English or Any Other Language. Embellished with a Great Number of Beautiful Copper Plates, Descriptive of the Most Distinguished Transactions Related in the Work, from Original Drawings of the Ingenious Messrs. Metz, Stothard, and Corbould, Members of the Royal Academy, and Other Eminent Artists. The Whole Engraved by the Most Capital Performers, Particularly Grignion, Collier, Heath, Tookey, Taylor, &c.

The Whole Genuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus, the Celebrated Warlike, Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian. Containing: I. The Antiquities of the Jews in Twenty Books; with Their Wars, Memorable Transactions, Authentic and Remarkable Occurrences, Their Various Turns of Glory and Misery, of Prosperity and Adversity, &c. from the Creation of the World. 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. III. The Book of Josephus Against Apion, in Defence of the Jewish Antiquities. In Two Parts. IV. The Martyrdoms of the Maccabees. V. The Embassy of Philo from the Jews of Alexandria to the Emperor Caius Caligula. VI. The Life of Flavius Josephus, Written by Himself. VII. The Testimonies of Josephus Concerning Our Blessed Saviour, St. John the Baptist, &c. Clearly Vindicated. The Whole Translated from the Original in the Greek Language, and Diligently Revised and Compared with the Writings of Contemporary Authors of Different Nations on the Subject; All Tending to Prove the Authenticity of the Work. To Which Will Be Now First Added, a Continuation of the History of the Jews, from Josephus Down to the Present Time, Including a Period of More Than 1700 Years. Containing an Account of Their Dispersion into the Various Parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and America, Their Different Persecutions, Transactions, Various Occurrences, and Present State Throughout the Known World. Also Various Useful Indexes, Particularly of the Countries, Cities, Towns, Villages, Seas, Rivers, Mountains, Lakes, &c. Likewise Tables of the Jewish Coins, Weights, Measures, &c. Used in the Time of the Author. With a Great Variety of Other Interesting and Authentic Particulars Never Given in Any Work of the Like Kind Either in the English or Any Other Language. Embellished with a Great Number of Beautiful Copper Plates, Descriptive of the Most Distinguished Transactions Related in the Work, from Original Drawings of the Ingenious Messrs. Metz, Stothard, and Corbould, Members of the Royal Academy, and Other Eminent Artists. The Whole Engraved by the Most Capital Performers, Particularly Grignion, Collier, Heath, Tookey, Taylor, &c.

A large illustrated folio edition of the works of Flavius Josephus, bringing together his major histories of the Jewish people and the Jewish-Roman wars, along with Against Apion, his autobiography, material on the Maccabees, Philo’s embassy to Caligula, and later editorial additions concerning Jewish history after Josephus. The work is especially important for its accounts of Second Temple Judaism, the Jewish revolt against Rome, the siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, Herodian history, Roman Judea, and Jewish antiquities.

Josephus, Flavius; George Henry Maynard; Edward Kimpton. c1786. London: Printed for J. Cooke. Folio.(9.5" x 15.5") (726) pp. Rebacked spine, repaired corners, original full brown polished calf boards. Spine with six gilt rule bordered raised bands, gilt lettering to maroon leather in second compartment. Minor edgewear, boards scuffed and rubbed with scratches and dings to leather boards. Prior ownersip in old ink neatly to head of first free endpaper, head of title page. Small white circular stamp to head of front pastedown identifying this book as part of "The William M. Lese Collection". Text in two columnms. Early paper repair to foot of recto of engraved frontispiece, closing a larger tear, not affecting text or image. Page iii, the start of the Preface with taped tear towards spine, remnants of earlier repair with cello-tape, the page now with small marginal closed tears and a couple of small chips to page edges. Page v/vi appears to be a replacement, fitting, but somewhat obvious. Two text pages and one plate with longer closed tears, now repaired with paper tape. Small spots of foxing with a couple of larger blooms internally, otherwise most pages clean and neat. Illustrated with 61 full page engravings created specifically for this work, including two hand-colored maps and a folding map of Jerusalem. A beautiful, large book overall.