BASNAGE, Jacques

Antiquitez judaïques, ou remarques critiques sur la république des hébreux. Amsterdam, Châtelain brothers, 1713. 2 volumes in-8 (173 x 108 mm) of LXXIV pp. including the engraved frontispiece, 3 ff.n.ch., 379 pp., 5 ff.n.ch. (including errata), 15 engraved folding plates for volume I ; engraved frontispiece, 3 ff.n.c., pp. [361]-884, 6 ff.n.c., 8 plates (7 folding) engraved for volume II. Speckled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, spotted edges (contemporary binding). Brunet, II, 691. First edition, usually joined to the work of Cineaus (la République des Hébreux. Amsterdam, Chatelain, 1713). It is richly illustrated with 23 folding plates (maps, mores, and objects of worship). As always the first volume contains under pagination 361-379 the Chronology of the Kings of Judea (illustrated with a map usually bound in volume II). A fine copy. (See also CUNEUS. The Hebrew Republic).