Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MACCHIAVELLI, NICCOLÒ. The Florentine Historie . . . translated into English, By T[homas] B[edingfield] Esquire. Title within woodcut historiated border. [12], 222 pages; lacks final blank. Folio, contemporary sheep, recased, typewritten paper lettering piece added; marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, some headlines cropped, title and last page darkened. Contemporary signature of R. Carre on title, 18th-century armorial bookplate of George Carre, Advocate, on verso. London: T[homas] C[reede] for W[illiam] P[onsonby], 1595

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first edition in english. Bertelli & Innocenti (16th century) 194; Gerber III, 98; STC 17162. From the library of the bibliographer Sir Walter Wilson Greg, with his signature dated River 1954.