Quarto. 8, 320, [4], 106, [16], 280, 152, 158pp. Contemporary blind- ruled sprinkled calf, recently rebacked. Boards heavily rubbed. Leaves browned, scattered spotting.

The fourth of five variants of the early seventeenth-century 'Testina' reissue of the 1550 edition of the complete published works, in the original Italian, of Renaissance polymath and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527).