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91 - Macchiavelli (Niccolo) The Works, first edition in English, 5pp. publisher's catalogue at end, 16pp. Letter to Zanobius Buondelmontius bound in with preliminaries and includes an inserted leaf of manuscript between 2*2 and 3*1 with catchword on 2*2v altered to make it read properly, early ink inscription at head of title, small burn-hole in 2F1 just affecting a couple of letters, contemporary mottled calf, a little rubbed, head of spine nicked, [ESTC R19906; Wing M128A], folio, Printed for John Starkey, 1675.

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£2,600 (€3,105)

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£3,000 - 4,000 (€3,500 - 4,800)

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32.4%

Macchiavelli (Niccolo) The Works, first edition in English, 5pp. publisher's catalogue at end, 16pp. Letter to Zanobius Buondelmontius bound in with preliminaries and includes an inserted leaf of manuscript between 2*2 and 3*1 with catchword on 2*2v altered to make it read properly, early ink inscription at head of title, small burn-hole in 2F1 just affecting a couple of letters, contemporary mottled calf, a little rubbed, head of spine nicked, [ESTC R19906; Wing M128A], folio, Printed for John Starkey, 1675. *** Handsome copy of the first edition in English of Macchiavelli's collected works. "Macchiavelli founded the science of modern politics on the study of mankind .... Politics was a science to be divorced entirely from ethics, and nothing must stand in the way of its machinery." (PMM).

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Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper
Thursday, November 19
11:30 AM
4 Ingate Pl, Nine Elms
SW8 3NS London, United Kingdom

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