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1558. BOOK. (ANCIENT HISTORY). IOSEPHE, FL.:. ON THE WAR, DESTRUCTION, AND CAPTIVITY OF THE JEWS: A TREATISE ON THE MARTYRDOM OF THE MACCABEES: THE AUTHOR’S LIFE, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. Translated into French by François Bourgoing, 1558. Lyon: by Jean Temporal, 1558. 2 volumes in one folio volume. I: 10 leaves + 718 pages + 31 leaves. Title page with engraved architectural border. II: 3 folios (title page missing) + 271 p. + 12 folios (two of which are amateur facsimiles). Woodcut initials, text set in running lines. Some water stains from past dampness. Two volumes bound together in a single volume in full leather, with raised bands, a reinforced spine, and a label. Heraldic ex-libris. An early French translation of the work by the Roman historian Flavius Josephus.