MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo (1469-1527). The Works . Translated by Henry Neville. London: John Starkey, 1675. 2° (320 x 200mm). (Small stain in the foremargin from marbling, marginal tear in 3Y5.) Contemporary calf, edges marbled (rebacked with the original spine, corners repaired, worn). Provenance : H. Kingsley (signature and inscription dated 1703) -- William Pym (armorial bookplate).
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo (1469-1527). The Works . Translated by Henry Neville. London: John Starkey, 1675. 2° (320 x 200mm). (Small stain in the foremargin from marbling, marginal tear in 3Y5.) Contemporary calf, edges marbled (rebacked with the original spine, corners repaired, worn). Provenance : H. Kingsley (signature and inscription dated 1703) -- William Pym (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Machiavelli's collected works, comprising The History of Florence , The Prince , The Discourses and The Art of War , each with sectional title. '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). Wing M-128; cf. PMM 63.
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo (1469-1527). The Works . Translated by Henry Neville. London: John Starkey, 1675. 2° (320 x 200mm). (Small stain in the foremargin from marbling, marginal tear in 3Y5.) Contemporary calf, edges marbled (rebacked with the original spine, corners repaired, worn). Provenance : H. Kingsley (signature and inscription dated 1703) -- William Pym (armorial bookplate).
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo (1469-1527). The Works . Translated by Henry Neville. London: John Starkey, 1675. 2° (320 x 200mm). (Small stain in the foremargin from marbling, marginal tear in 3Y5.) Contemporary calf, edges marbled (rebacked with the original spine, corners repaired, worn). Provenance : H. Kingsley (signature and inscription dated 1703) -- William Pym (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Machiavelli's collected works, comprising The History of Florence , The Prince , The Discourses and The Art of War , each with sectional title. '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). Wing M-128; cf. PMM 63.
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