The Florentine Historie

by Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Bedingfield

$23,500 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

London: Printed by T.C. Thomas Creede for W.P. William Ponsonby , 1595. First Edition. First edition in English. Folio, pp. 12 , 222. Contemporary likely original vellum, fragment of the original printed paper label on spine. Woodcut engraved ornamental title page, the upper right corner chipped and replaced with paper appropriated from the lower left corner of the rear free endpaper, otherwise a very good, complete

• Binding: Leather

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