The works of the famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence.

Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English. London : printed for R. Clavel, Cha. Harper, Jonathan Robinson, Joh. Emery, A. and J. Churchil, 1694. Quarto (320 x 205 mm), contemporary mottled calf (boards a little scuffed and worn at edges), rebacked; hinges cracked; front free-endpaper with discreet ownership inscription in red ink of John Knott M.D. dated 1906; pp. [38], 528; pagination erratic as always; occasional marginal water staining, some underlining and marginalia, otherwise internally clean and sound; as in other copies, one of the divisional titles is lacking (in this case, for the History of Florence).

Henry Neville’s first English translation of the collected works of Machiavelli was first published in 1675; a second edition appeared in 1680, and a third in 1720. This is a later issue (with some minor variants) of the 1680 second edition. The treatises contained in the folio include: The History of Florence; The Prince; The Original of the Guelf and Ghibilin Factions; The Life of Castruccio Castracani; The Murther of Vitellozzo Vitelli; The State of France; The State of Germany; The Discourses on Titus Livius; The Art of War; The Marriage of Belphegor; and Nicholas Machiavel’s letter to Zenobius Buondelmontius in vindication of Himself and his writings.

Wing M130.