Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
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 [by] Henry Neville.
Call Number
Oversize Lapidus 5.2390q
Oversize 3131.49.2675q
Identifier
ark:/88435/dckp78gs81z
Publisher
London, : Printed for John Starkey ..., 1675.
Language
English
Date Created
1675
Extent
[24], 189 [i.e. 179], [5], 199-267 [i.e. 265], [5], 267-314, 317-431, [6], 434-529, [23] p. ; 33 cm. (2⁰).
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC R19906
Wing (2nd ed.) M128A
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Translated by Henry Neville.
"The history of Florence", "The prince", "The discourses", and "The art of war" each has separate t.p.
Signatures: [a]²b-d²A-Z⁴2A-2B²2C-2K⁴2L-2M²2N-3I⁴3K²,²3K²,3L-3Y⁴[3Z]⁴(3Z1 + *-2*²3*⁴).
Numerous errors and omissions in paging.
Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Advertisements: [5] p. at end (3Z2-3Z4, the final page blank).
Princeton copy 1 Lapidus copy: lacks cut of Machiavelli facing the title page, as found in other copies, such as that at the Cambridge University Library.
"Nicholas Machiavel's Letter to Zanobius Buondelmontius in vindicatim of himself and his writings", 16 p. at end.
Quires *-2*² and 3*⁴ (letters to the reader and to Zanobius Buondelmontius) bound between 3Z1 and 3Z2 (before final adv. leaves).
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Lapidus copy: Full mottled calf (18th cent.), rebacked; marbled endpapers; edges speckled red.

Discovery Information

Subject
Political science
Political ethics
Florence (Italy)—History
War
Fiction

Physical Characteristics

File Count
582

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8a29bc59-72d8-4614-a79d-9c06e9dd171a/manifest