[Rarebooks] FS: 3 contemporary writers on political science in 16th c. Italy. Venice: 1588

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Guicciardini, Francesco and Gio Francesco Lottini and Francesco Sansovino. PROPOSITIONI OVERO CONSIDERATIONI IN MATERIA DI COSE DI STATO, Sotto Titulo di Avvertimenti, Avvedimenti Vivilii, & Concetti Politia... Di Nuovo Posti Insieme, Ampliati & Corretti, a Commodo, & Beneficio de gli Studiosi... Venice: Altobello Salicato. 1588. 4to. ff.(8),156. Full page woodcut portrait of Guicciardini at the end of the preliminary index. 18th century vellum, somewhat worn. Title and text with some soiling & some light discoloration. One section with some marginal worming, not affecting the letterpress. Front free endpaper lacking.    $500.00 (trade discount allowed)
A political science compendium by three of the great writers on this subject of 16th century Italy. This is the second edition (the first appearing in 1583) with later printings in 1598 and 1608. Adams G 1532.

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