Machiavelli, Niccolo: FLORENTINE HISTORIE
Machiavelli, Niccolo: FLORENTINE HISTORIE. Written in the Italian Tongue by Nicholo Machiavelli Citizen and Secretarie of and Translated Into English by T. B[edingfield]. London: Printed by T[homas] C[reede] for VV[illiam] P[onsonby], 1595, first edition in English, small folio, title within ornamental woodcut border. PP:xii, 222. Early C17 full leather with later spine, gilt lettered label and Bingham (by mistake, for Bedingfield) to spine; later endpapers. Title browned and edges frayed (repair to top edges); occasional light damp staining. Loosely inserted: the receipt of purchase from a Histon, Cambridge bookseller in 1945, for £5.15.0
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Machiavelli, Niccolo: FLORENTINE HISTORIE. Written in the Italian Tongue by Nicholo Machiavelli Citizen and Secretarie of and Translated Into English by T. B[edingfield]. London: Printed by T[homas] C[reede] for VV[illiam] P[onsonby], 1595, first edition in English, small folio, title within ornamental woodcut border. PP:xii, 222. Early C17 full leather with later spine, gilt lettered label and Bingham (by mistake, for Bedingfield) to spine; later endpapers. Title browned and edges frayed (repair to top edges); occasional light damp staining. Loosely inserted: the receipt of purchase from a Histon, Cambridge bookseller in 1945, for £5.15.0
Sold for £1,600
