[Rarebooks] FS: 1st English ed. of Machiavelli's "Florentine History" London: 1674

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Machiavelli, Niccolo. THE FLORENTINE HISTORY IN VIII BOOKS. Written by Nicholas Machiavel Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Now Exactly Translated from the Italian. London: Printed for Charles Harper, and John Amery. 1674. First English language edition. Sm. 8vo. Each of the VIII books are separately paginated. (12),73,(1);94;76;70;82;76;74;81,(13)pp. Each book with its own index. Copper engraved frontispiece portrait. Cont. calf, rubbed, elaborately gilt tooled spine compartments (a bit dulled), front hinge cracked but holding soundly. Engraved armorial bookplate of Robert Eden (Governor of the Colony of Maryland) on front pastedown, and another engraved bookplate of Sir William Brownlowe of Belton, dated 1698, on verso of title page.    $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Wing M136. The translator is not known.

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