12mo. 157 [i.e. 257]ff, [1]. Nineteenth-century calf-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, remnants of bookplate to FEP, small marginal holes to title page and initial leaf of text, light damp-staining to head of initial gathering, scattered spotting.

A revised mid-sixteenth century Italian edition of Renaissance polymath and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli's (1469-1527) Florentine Histories, first published posthumously in 1532.

The work, Machivelli's most extensive, charts the history of the city of Florence from its foundation to the death in 1492 of Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici. The book was commissioned by Pope Leo X in 1520 and in upon completion in 1525, officially presented to Pope Clement VII.