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).
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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