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[EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT] JOSEPHUS, Flavius (37–100 CE). The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated into English, by Sir Roger L’Estrange… The life of Josephus. Written by Himself… The antiquities of the Jews…His book against Apion, in dence of the said antiquities of the Jews…Their wars with the Romans…The martyrdom of the Maccabees…Philo’s embassy from the Jews of Alexandria to Caius Caligula. 7 works in 4 vols. [Vol.1:] London, Printed, Philadelphia Re-Printed, by W, & T. Bradford, for John McGibbons, 1773; [Vol. 2]: America: Printed for the Subscribers, 1774; [vol. 3]: New York: Hodge and Shober, for John McGibbons, 1775; [vol. 4]: New York: Shober and Loudon, for John McGibbons and Robert Hodge, 1775. 8vo. FIRST COMPLETE AMERICAN EDITION. Period calf, raised bands, red morocco spine label gilt titled (extremities rubbed, joints tenders with some splitting, few tears with losses at crown of Vol. 1 and 4 (contents starting in both), Vol. 4 upper board with front endpapers detached, lengthy inscriptions to terminal blanks (lacking in Vol. 2), browning or staining throughout). A DESIRABLE AND UNCOMMON SET OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY WAR PUBLISHING IN AMERICA. Evans 12822, 13357, 14135; Hildeburn 2892. Hildeburn notes that the three New York volumes “average five hundred pages, and in that respect, as a bookseller's venture, have no peers among the colonial books of New York” (Sketches of Printers...Colonial New York, 147).