Josephus Flavius William Whiston Trans (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: NEAR FINE. x,926pp. Owner's name to FFEP. Otherwise, exceedingly clean and unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 778pp.incl.index; HB blk.w/gilt; rubbed w/wear&chips on edges&corners; dent,bk.upper edge; stain,ft.pastedwn.; clean,tight pgs. "Includes: Life of Flavius Josephus; The Antiquties of the Jews; The Wars of the Jews; Discourse Concerning Hades; Seven Dissertations; Tables of Jewish Weights and Measures; List of Ancient Testimonies and Records Cited by Josehus; Texts of the Old Testament Parallel to Josephus' Histories . 20 Full-Page Illustrations" isbn 082542951X.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 770 pp. Cover is in good condition, some indications of wear. Slight bending in bottom corner. Fading on spine. Binding is strong. Text block appears clear and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Tenth Printing. 926pp.+maps; HB blue w/gilt; some rub w/some pencil,otherwise clean,tight pgs. Entite text of Whiston's work - translation w/notes and essays.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 684 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Stamp to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

Condition: Fair. 1861. No Edition Remarks. 854 pages. No dust jacket. Green pebbled cloth with gilt titles to spine. B&W frontispiece and fold-out map. Pages are rather marked with heavy tanning and foxing, plus thumbing. Gutters and hinges heavily cracked with exposed netting; feels shaky overall. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Ex libris plate to front pastedown. Front matter loose. Sporadic tears, stains etc within. Adhesive marks to pastedowns. Boards have heavy edge wear, with intense bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are very crushed and frayed. Joints worn too with slight splits. Scratched, rubbed, stained, mottled and marked overall. Gilt is dulled and worn. Book has a slight forward lean.

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. Translated by William Whiston. bright & clean in firm binding. Typeface quite small.

Super octavo hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. pp. 789. 8vo. Bound in mustard cloth. Black and white illustrations. Shelfworn with scuffing to boards, short split at rear joint, previous owner name in ink to ffep. Binding a bit loose: endpapers split at hinges exposing mull; good. Includes dissertations on 'Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, and the Sacrifice of Isaac, and a discourse on Hades, or Hell.'.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition without jacket on red leather cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

Hard cover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. 978 p. Includes index. front and rear hinges are open and the webbing is exposed, but still connected, corners are bumped and the wedges have some normal wear. black clothe covers with gilt titles.

Harcover. Secondhand.This wonderful book includes "The Antiquities of The Jews", "Wars of the Jews", "Flavius Josephus Against Apion", and "An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to the Greeks", all in one volume, translated by the English historn William Whiston. Ca. 1860-70s hardback. Spine damaged and the cover worn, but the interior is in VG condition with some pencil marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No date [c. 1895]. Full brown buckram, with decoration and lettering in black, and gilt title to spine. 167 x 240 x 46mm. 684pp. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; printed throughout in double columns with line borders; includes table of weights and measures, and index. Light rubbing/bumping at spine-ends; ink inscription, dated 1896, to reverse of frontispiece (from a grandmother to her grandson); pages a little discoloured on edges, but clean and bright internally. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Welsh language edition in half-leather with wear and split to banded spine. 730 pages with a tight binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Thick 8vo hardcover in leather binding. Spine and boards complete and not cracked. General wear to edges and leather. Front endpaper holding but partly off. Some early names in front. Title and front portrait ok. 648 pages + 7 ad pages are tight with toning and scattered foxing. No water marks. A solid copy of a early book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No markings or inscriptions, no date - late 19th century. Bound in dark green cloth with black and gilt decoration, dark brown coated endpapers. Binding is very sound, clean and bright. Light to moderate foxing sporadically. Text in 2 columns. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. London: Nelson 1856 hardcover red boards gold gilt title to spine 854 pages + index pages Contains 'The life of Flavius Josephus', 'The antiquities of the jews', 'Wars of the jews', and 'Flavius Josephus against Apion', no dj, boards have faded, scuuffs to top spine and tanning spots to feps with contents page torn out but inside in GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Half leather with marbled paper covered boards. Very good. Reprint. 12mo- over 6 3/4-7 3/4 tall. Three volumes. Six hubbed spine panels with two panels being the titling and the volume number. Four panels are gily. Very attractive. A clean, tight, and nice set. Published circa 1900. Very readable as to print type and paper quality.

120x180 mm. 280 pages. Hardcover. Cover edges and corners worn. Pages yellowing and slightly age stained. Pages slightly wavy. Else in good condition. The book is in : English.

Hardcover. Condition: fair. Stereotype Edition. 8vo. 648pp. Full leather binding with gilt ornamental illustration and lettering to spine. Printed on high qualilty cotton rag. Collected works of Flavius Josephus with Christian texts. Frontispiece, a copper plate engraving, depicting Josephus. Beneath is a handwritten owner's dedication of the time (dated 1864). Contains: 1) Life of Flavius Josephus 2) Antiquities of the Jews. 3) Wars of the Jews [vol. 3, 4] 4) Against Apion 5) Three Dissertations Text is in English. Ex-libris to inside of front board. Serious age wear and staining, with front board almost completely detached, but still attached on top. Water marks to frontispiece, title and first few pages. Serious browning throughout, with foxing. Overall in fair condition. Flavius Josephus a.k.a. Joseph b. Matityahu was a 1st century Jewish historian and soldier. During the 66-70 C.E. Jewish revolt against Rome, he was made commander of Galilee. He surrendered to the Romans rather then commit suicide. After the war, Josephus spent the last three decades of his life living in a villa outside of Rome under imperial patronage and writing his histories. He authored The Jewish War, The Antiquities of the Jews, Against Apion and an autobiography. Josephus' historical works are among the most valuable sources for the study of 1st century Judaism and the context for early Christianity. This is due, among other things to the fact that they are products of his firsthand experience and his peculiar position as a defender of Judaism and a supporter of Rome. While Josephus was ignored by Jewish tradition (the Talmud makes no mention of him), he was embraced by the Church. This was mainly because of the Testimonium Flavianum passage from the Antiquities Book 18, which refers to Jesus and even calls him the Messiah. (Whether or not this passage was all or in part added in by a Christian scribe is a matter of some debate among scholars.) Such Church Fathers as Origin, Jerome and Ambrose, as well as the early ecclesiastical historian Eusebius quote him in their work. For more information: 1) On Josephus: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05. The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition (1911) Encyclopedia Judaica (1972) 2) On the different editions: Graesse: Tresor de Livres Rares et Precieux ou Nouveau Dictionnaire Bibliographique. (Martino: Cambridge, MA.) Heinz Schreckenberg: Bibliographie zu Flavius Josephus (Leiden: Brill. 1968) Heinz Schreckenberg: Bibliographie zu Flavius Josephus. Supplementband mit Gesamtregister (Leiden: Brill. 1979) Louis H. Feldmann: Josepus. A Supplementary Bibliography. (Garland: New York/London. 1986).

Leather. Condition: Good. Frontis piece and copperplate maps, folding; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1750 pages; 4 volumes complete. 447, 424 ,432, 447 pp. Uniformly bound in tree calf leather. Title labels missing from spines. Upper boards of Vols 2 & 3 are detached; other joints tenuous. Complete with copperplate engraved frontis portrait and two copperplate maps of Jerusalem. Prior ownership of James Wilson, an inventor who donated these books among many others to the private NYC "inventor's library" of The American Insititute. Ownership in manuscript of Wilson to front and rear endpages; bookplate of the Institute mounted to the pastedowns. Period red inkstamp of the Library to the first printed page of vols I & II. Text pages clean with just mild toning and occasional light foxing. Leather at spines dry and flaking; some rubbing and surface scraping to leather boards. Good or a little better thus. . Oversize book set will require additional charges for most shipping methods.

Hardcover. Condition: fair. 8vo. 4 volumes. 447pp. 424pp. 432pp. 445pp. Contemporary full leather binding of the period with maroon title-labels. Complete four volume set containing some of the works by the great Jewish historian. Illustrated with two fold-out plates. One is a plan of Jerusalem, the other a map of places mentioned in the New Testament. Fontispiece and map of Jerusalem are copper engravings. Text is in English. Contains: 1) Antiquities of the Jews. [all of vol. 1 and 2, part of vol. 3] 2) Life of Flavius Josephus [vol. 3] 3) Wars of the Jews [vol. 3, 4] 4) Against Apion [vol. 4] Heavy age wear on bindings. Front board and free front endpaper of Vol. I detached but present. Joints of other volumes split but holding. Title-label of vol. 1 missing. Ex libris of Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati on inside of front boards. Blind library stamps on title-pages. Some age toning and sporadic foxing throughout. Rippling to pages. Pencil markings / numbers scribbled on front and rear endpapers of volumes I, III & IV. Bindings in fair to poor, interior in overall good- condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Complete 4 volume set, 1/2 bound in black leather with marbled covered boards, books a tight and bindings un-cracked. Spins with redish leather title labels, raised bands and gold gilt decor. Some minor rubbing on the spine especially along the edges and at the corners, most volumes have foxing especially on first and last pages, fold out map in volume 2 is also foxed but is untorn and very good condition.

Hardcover. First Whiston edition. Folio (37.3 by 22.8 cm). Signatures: [A]2 a-2c2 2d4 2e-2p2 B-13A2. [4], cvi, *cv-*cviii, [1], cviii-clii, 1021, [83: indices; addenda; errata; catalogue of Whiston's writings] pp. 1 engraved folding map; 1 engraved plate of the Jewish Temples, with notes. Complete with half-title. Contemporary calf (worn and stained), professionally rebacked to style, with repairs to corners and fills to covers. Map with small repair to verso. Temple plate (mounted), with 8 cm clean tear in text. Occasional light to moderate toning/foxing. Overall a very good, amply-margined copy, in a restored binding. First edition of William Whiston's English translation, founded upon the Greek edition of Josephus edited by Siwart Havercamp in 1726. As Thomas Hartwell Horne noted in 1839, Havercamp's critical edition was generally considered the best on account of its completeness, though the Greek text contained many errors. Earlier English translations had been made by Thomas Lodge -- The Famous and Memorable Workes of Josephus (London, 1602); and Sir Roger L'Estrange -- The Works of Flavius Josephus (London, 1702). Lodge's version relied "mainly upon the Latin of Gelenius, printed at Geneva in 1595, with constant suggestions from the French of Antoine de la Faye (Paris, 1597)" (Lathrop). It was exceedingly popular -- one would have to say a best-seller of the early modern era -- and was reprinted at least nine times throughout the seventeenth century. Regarding Whiston's version, William T. Lowndes noted in 1834 that this "admirable translation far exceeds all preceding ones, and has never been equaled by any subsequent attempt of this kind." Heinz Schreckenberg greatly enlarges upon the signifacance and influence of the present English version of the first century Jewish historian: "The importance of this incredibly frequently reprinted translation can hardly be overestimated (Die Bedeutung dieser ungemein oft nachgedruckten Übersetzung kann kaum überschätzt werden). In the Anglo-American world, Josephus has become a kind of household book alongside the Bible thanks to Whiston. The fact that in English Protestantism Josephus was "permitted reading" alongside the Bible on Sunday is certainly important for this. Josephus has always been seen as a welcome addition and continuation of the biblical accounts. It seems that this historical interest has a new beginning with the Reformation and is greatly promoted by it. Indeed, it is precisely reformers (Kaspar Hedion) and Protestant theologians and preachers (Cotta; Lautenbach) who propagate knowledge of Josephus in German-speaking countries through their translations. Whiston expresses the widespread, strong effort to claim the Jewish Josephus for church and salvation history by making him [in Dissertation VI] the Christian bishop of Jerusalem [!]." As noted in the introduction to a recent collection of essays on Josephus' importance for historical studies, his ongoing influence upon, and central position within, contemporary scholarship is astonishing: "Josephus supports an entire world of research which encompasses Biblical studies, Jewish history, Hellenistic and Roman history, New Testament studies, Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Land of Israel studies, Classical languages, and of course the study of Josephus himself as both historian and public man" (Pastor). References: L. W. Brueggemann, English Editions of the Ancient Greek and Latin Authors (Stettin, 1797), pp. 298-299; ESTC T112661; T. H. Horne, Biblical Bibliography (London, 1839), p. 235; H. B. Lathrop, Translations from the Classics into English (New York, 1967), pp. 251-252; W. T. Lowndes, Bibliographer's Manual (London, 1885), p. 1235; J. Pastor, et al., Flavius Josephus: Interpretation and History (Leiden, 2011), p. 1; H. Schreckenberg, Bibliographie zu Flavius Josephus (Leiden, 1968), pp. 42-44. Full title and imprint: 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 : Together with proper Notes, Observations, Contents, Parallel Texts of Scripture, Five Compleat Indexes, and the True Chronology of the Several Histories adjusted in the Margin. To this Book Are Prefixed Eight Dissertations . with an Account of Jewish Coins, Weights, and Measures. London: Printed by W. Bowyer for the Author: and are to be sold by John Whiston, Bookseller, at Mr. Boyle's Head: Fleetstreet. MDCCXXXVII.