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Sale 2683 - Lot 175

Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
Nifo, Agostino (c. 1473-1538 or 1545)
Libellus de Rege Tyranno, [bound with] De Regnandi Peritia ad Carolum VI.

Naples: Evangelista Presenzani, 1526. [and] Naples: Caterina de Silvestro, 1523.

Two quarto titles bound as one, Nifo's Regandi includes extensive passages from Machiavelli's The Prince translated into Latin and published without attribution, the only substantial publication of text from The Prince that occurred during Machiavelli's lifetime; both works neatly ruled in red throughout; bound in full 19th century gilt and painted decorative binding in the fanfare style with Papal arms, gilt and gauffered edges, lacking ties, ostensibly created to deceive, likely by Theodore Hagué; housed in a custom solander box done in full red morocco and lettered in gilt (representing the binding in description as genuine on the spine label); false, but attractive and nicely preserved; the first work with final integral blank present, the second lacking the final blank [E10]; this copy purchased at Sotheby's in 2020; 7 1/2 x 5 in.

Rare at auction; Adams N-289 [Regnandi]; See also G. Giorgini's "Five Hundred Years of Scholarship on Machiavelli's Prince," as published in The Review of Politics, vol. 75, no. 4, Special Issue: Machiavelli's Prince, Fall 2013.
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