101 - Flavio, Giuseppe. *L’histoire … contenant les guerres qui furent au pays de Judee*. Paris: Nicolas Savetier for Galliot Du Pré the Elder, Poncet Le Preux, and Claude Chevallon, 1530., Extremely rare second edition of the first French translation

Flavio, Giuseppe. *L’histoire … contenant les guerres qui furent au pays de Judee*. Paris: Nicolas Savetier for Galliot Du Pré the Elder, Poncet Le Preux, and Claude Chevallon, 1530., Extremely rare second edition of the first French translation Flavius, Joseph. The History … containing the wars that took place in the land of Judea. Paris, Nicolas Savetier for Galliot Du Pré the Elder, Poncet Le Preux, and Claude Chevallon, 1530 Folio (325 x 210 mm); 203 [1] leaves. Title page in red and black type with the title within an architectural border; text in two columns in Bastard Gothic, with large ornate initials, 7 large woodcuts in the text, one of which is repeated (pages 27, 28, and 31 are missing; water stains, a few small woodworm holes, discoloration, some spots, minor losses due to the quality of the paper.) 20th-century binding in brown calfskin, with a gilt fillet frame on the covers, a 5-rib spine with the title in gold, and red edges. A rare French edition of the famous historical account of the Jewish revolt against Rome and the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem. The illustration plates were first used in various French incunabula in the vernacular; for example, the particularly fine woodcut of Jerusalem comes from *The City of God* by St. Augustine of Abbeville, dated 1486. Extremely rare second edition of the first French translation