12mo. [32], 254pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf. Rubbed, upper joint split, loss to head of spine. Very occasional early manuscript annotations, scattered spotting.

The second edition of French historian Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye's (1634-1706) influential translation of Renaissance polymath and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli's (1469-1527) magnum opus.