MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò; FARNESWORTH, Ellis (translator).
The Works of Nicholas Machiavel,
The Works of Nicholas Machiavel,
Secretary of State to the Republic of Florence. Newly translated from the originals; illustrated with notes, anecdotes, dissertations, and the life of Machiavel, never before published; and several new plans on the art of war.
Stock Code 120459
London, Printed for Thomas Davies, in Russel-Street, Coven-Garden et al., 1762.
Including his major titles The Prince, Florentine Histories, Discourses on Livy, and The Art of War, together with his lesser known treatise on the government of Florence, Life of Castruccio Castricani of Lucca, Narrative on the Duke of Valentine, sketches on the affairs of France and Germany, novella Marriage of Belphegor, and letters.
With a life of the author, critical notes, and folding military plans. Farnesworth (d.1763) relied on a variety of sources for his translations, basing The Prince, for instance, on the French-language edition by Amelot de la Houssaye. This is followed chapter-by-chapter with an English translation of the King of Prussia's 'Anti-Machiavel' discourse Examen du Prince, and prefaced by Voltaire's essay on the text.
With provenance for Edward Watts of Hanslope Park, Buckinghamshire. His father was the East India Company officer William Watts, who helped establish company rule in Bengal, and his nephew, Robert Banks Jenkinson, better known as the 2nd Earl of Liverpool, was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827.
First Farnesworth edition; 2 vols; 4to (27 x 21.5 cm); text in English, 8 folding military plans, one printed to recto and verso, armorial bookplate to front pastedowns, a little toned, occasional spotting, staining to margins of gathering C in vol. I; contemporary sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces to spine, edges sprinkled red, joints repaired in japanese tissue, boards and corners abraded with slight loss, very good.
ESTC T91113.
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