The Works of Flavius Josephus, the Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian and Celebrated Warrior. With Three Dissertations conce

Pp. [2], 635. 652, slight foxing + Portrait frontis + 2 Folding engraved maps. Original diced calf. Raised spine bands with gilt decorated panels, slight rubbing and slight leather split to hinge. Holding firm. Titus Flavius Josephus was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish-Roman War which resulted in the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. He has been credited by many as recording some of the earliest history of Jesus Christ outside of the gospels