MACHIAVELLI, Niccol. Tutte le opere ... divisi in V. parti, et di nuovo con somma accuratezza ristampate, 1550 [i.e. ?Geneva, ca. 1620]. 5 parts in one volume, 4, general title with woodcut portrait of Machiavelli, each work with separate title, all but one with woodcut portrait of Machiavelli, one double-page illustration, with the blank in pt. III and the final blank (marginal paper repair to D4 in pt. I, occasional light spotting), 17th-century blind-stamped vellum, floral motif stamped in black on covers and spine, manuscript title on spine (vellum cover of spine split, front joints broken but cords holding, rear joints split). Provenance: Wolfgang de Papschitz, ownership inscription on title dated 1657. Second "Testina" edition, five different editions were published dated 1550. Brunet III, 1275; Graesse IV, 325; Adams M7.

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MACHIAVELLI, Niccol. Tutte le opere ... divisi in V. parti, et di nuovo con somma accuratezza ristampate, 1550 [i.e. ?Geneva, ca. 1620]. 5 parts in one volume, 4, general title with woodcut portrait of Machiavelli, each work with separate title, all but one with woodcut portrait of Machiavelli, one double-page illustration, with the blank in pt. III and the final blank (marginal paper repair to D4 in pt. I, occasional light spotting), 17th-century blind-stamped vellum, floral motif stamped in black on covers and spine, manuscript title on spine (vellum cover of spine split, front joints broken but cords holding, rear joints split). Provenance: Wolfgang de Papschitz, ownership inscription on title dated 1657. Second "Testina" edition, five different editions were published dated 1550. Brunet III, 1275; Graesse IV, 325; Adams M7.

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