MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò (1469-1527).  Historie, [Passini & Bindoni], 1537. 8° (145 x 95mm.) (title soiled, inner margin repaired, upper margin of first few leaves lightly frayed, some light waterstaining, lightly soiled throughout). Bertelli & Innocenti 33; not in BLSTC Italian, Adams or EDIT. [Bound with:]
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MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò (1469-1527). Historie, [Passini & Bindoni], 1537. 8° (145 x 95mm.) (title soiled, inner margin repaired, upper margin of first few leaves lightly frayed, some light waterstaining, lightly soiled throughout). Bertelli & Innocenti 33; not in BLSTC Italian, Adams or EDIT. [Bound with:]

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MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò (1469-1527). Historie, [Passini & Bindoni], 1537. 8° (145 x 95mm.) (title soiled, inner margin repaired, upper margin of first few leaves lightly frayed, some light waterstaining, lightly soiled throughout). Bertelli & Innocenti 33; not in BLSTC Italian, Adams or EDIT. [Bound with:]

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò. Il principe la vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca a Zanobi Buondelmonti, & a Luigi Alamam il modo che tenne il Duca Valentino per ammazzare Vitellozzo, Oliverotto da Fermo, il S. Pagolo, & il Duca di Gavina, descritta per il medesimo, Venice: 1539. 8° (a few leaves waterstained with slight discoloration in margins, lightly soiled throughout). Bertelli & Innocenti 43; BLSTC Italian, p. 400; not in Adams or EDIT.

2 works in one volume, early 19th-century blue half calf and marbled boards, red lettering-piece, spine ruled in gilt and decorated in blind in compartments (rear hinge detached, quite rubbed); old marginal annotations and underlining throughout.

Two of Machiavelli's major works: Istorie fiorentine, an official history of Florence, and Il Principe, Machiavelli's famous treatise on statecraft.
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