The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English.

Nicholas Machiavel [Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli]

Published by Printed for John Starkey, Charles Harper, and John Amery, at the Miter, the Flower-de-Luce, and the Peacock, in Fleet Street., 1680

About this Item

1680, the second edition. Translated by Henry Neville. Folio. 11 works in one volume. Pagination is erratic (as usual): [24] 177, 188-189, [5], 199-263 [mis-numbered 256], 266-267, [5], 267-314, 317-431, [5], 433-528pp. Contents as per list: The History of Florence; The Prince; The Original of the Guelf and Ghibilin Factions; The Life of Castruccio Castracani; The Murther of Vitelli; The State of France; The State of Germany; The Discourses on Titus Livius; The Art of War; The Marriage of Belphegor; Machiavel's Letter in Vindication of Himself and his Writings. Contemporary calf boards, blind ruled, recently sympathetically re-cased and corners repaired. New hand-made end papers. Faded marbling to page edges. Occasional age-toning and light marginal spotting. A Very Good copy of this rare work. Wing M129; ESTC R13145.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English.
• Publisher: Printed for John Starkey, Charles Harper, and John Amery, at the Miter, the Flower-de-Luce, and the Peacock, in Fleet Street.
• Publication Date: 1680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good