The history of the Jews, from Jesus Christ to the present time: : containing their antiquities, their religion, their rites, the dispersion of the ten tribes in the East, and the persecutions this nation has suffer'd in the West. Being a supplement and continuation of the History of Josephus. / Written in French by Mr. Basnage. Translated into English by Tho. Taylor, A.M.
Jacques Basnage, sieur de Beauval (1653-1723)
Category
Books
Date
1708
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3135667
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], iii-x, [4], 140, 145-256, 259-266, 273-491, 464-759, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates, [1] table : ill. (metal cuts) ; fol. Ink splodges on p. 281. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Manuscript inscription on title page: Jeff: Gilbert [i.e. Sir Geoffrey Gilbert (1674-1726), Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, whose library was sold at auction in Gray's Inn in 1728]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled, panelled calf over boards on six raised cords; single gilt fillet on spine; late eighteenth-century red spine label; double blind fillet with inner rectangular compartment and cornerpiece design on covers; blind tooling along board edges; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Jacques Basnage, sieur de Beauval (1653-1723), author