Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309
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Sale 2309 - Lot 126

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLÒ. Tutte le opere. Woodcut portrait vignette on general title and divisional titles except for the last. [4], 8, 351, [1]; [4], 116; 14, [2], 304; 158; 170, [2] pages, including one double-page woodcut and 8 full-page typographical diagrams of troop formations, and 2 integral blanks. 5 parts in one volume. 4to, 218x169 mm, contemporary vellum boards with later spine title in ink, turn-ins sprung; occasional minor marginal soiling and dampstaining, few marginalia in third part, front free endpaper lacking. Signature of Matthew Hay, M.D., dated 1894; bookplate of the art historian Kenneth Clark, Lord Clark of Saltwood (1903-83). Np, 1550 [i. e., Geneva: Pierre Aubert, circa 1628]
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Second of the 5 "Testina" editions of Machiavelli's collected works, spuriously dated 1550 but printed in the 17th century, so named for the small woodcut portrait on the titles. GLN-6757; Adams M7; Bertelli & Innocenti (16th century) 205; Gerber II, 99.