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The Life of Niccolo Machiavelli
by Ridolfi, Roberto
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. (1963). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps, labels and markings. Occasional pencil underlining and marginalia. Dust-jacket in clear plastic cover, taped to boards and endpapers.; First edition in English. xii, 337, [3 (blank)] pages + 5 illustrations on 2 plate leaves. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Page dimensions: 233 x 153mm. Top page edges dyed blue. Text in English. Translated from the Italian by Cecil Grayson. The Italian first edition was titled "Vita di Niccolo Machiavelli" (1954). "'I rise in the morning with the sun, and I go off to a wood of mine which I am having cut down, where I stop for two hours to see what was done the day before and to talk to the woodcutters who always have some trouble on hand either among themselves or with their neighbours . . . Leaving the wood I go to a spring and thence to some bird-traps of mine. I have a book with me, Dante or Petrarch of one of the minor poets, Tibullus, Ovid or the like. I read about their amorous passions and their loves, I remember my own, and dwell on these thoughts for a while. Then I go on to the road and into the tavern." - p. 151. .
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- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 25601
- Title
- The Life of Niccolo Machiavelli
- Author
- Ridolfi, Roberto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Routledge and Kegan Paul
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1963)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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