[Rarebooks] FS: Early criticism of Machiavelli's "Prince" (Geneva?): 1578

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[Gentillet, Innocent]. COMMENTARIORUM DE REGNO AUT QUOVIS PRINCIPATU RECTE & TRANQUILLE ADMINISTRENDO, LIBRI TRES... ADVERSUS NIC. MACHIAVELLUM FLORENTINUM... N.p.: No pub. (Geneva: J. Stoer?). 1578. 16mo. (32),928,(28)pp. Index. Woodcut device on title page. Orig. tooled pigskin, a very fine copy. Large engraved 18th century bookplate of Ignatz Domink at rear. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. On a final blank is a contemporary manuscript poem in ink, of 33 lines, titled, "In Machiavellum," authorship unknown.	$2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The 2nd edition in Latin of Gentillet's (1535-1588) condemnation of the ideas of Machiavelli. VD 16 C1302. Adams G437.


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