Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

154 155 154 c MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLÒ. Le Prince. French translation by Jacques Gohory. Woodcut portrait of the author on a7v. [8], 64 leaves. bound after his : Les Discours . . . sur la premiere decade de Tite Live, dez l’edification de la ville. French translation by Jacques Gohory. [8], 179 [i. e., 280], [11] (of [12]) leaves, including penultimate leaf with woodcut portrait of the author on recto; lacks final blank. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 163x109 mm, 19th-century ¼ leather, spine quite worn; contents toned, short clean tear in A4, occasional early underscoring and marginalia, and stain in blank outer margin of last few leaves in Le Prince, dark stains on title and small piece missing from fore edge in Les Discours. Paris: Robert Le Mangnier, 1571; 1571 [500/1,000] first gohory edition of Il Principe, the third translation into French, bound with the second complete edition in French of the Discorsi. Bertelli & Innocenti (16th Century) 149, 148; Gerber III, 34 and 24. 155 c [MANDEVILLE, BERNARD.] An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour and the Usefulness of Christianity inWar. xi, [9], 240 pages. 8vo, 196x123 mm, modern calf in period style, light stains on front cover; faint marginal dampstaining through most of volume, mainly noticeable at very end, old ownership inscription on title, portions of front endpapers removed. London: John Brotherton, 1732 [300/500] first edition . of a collection of further dialogues between characters from Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees. Rothschild 1375.