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The Florentine Historie

The Florentine Historie by Machiavelli, Niccolò [Translated by Thomas Bedingfield]

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Title
The Florentine Historie
Author
Machiavelli, Niccolò [Translated by Thomas Bedingfield]
Seller
Biblioctopus (United States)
Description
London: Printed by T.C. [Thomas Creede] for W.P. [William Ponsonby], 1595. First Edition. First edition in English. Folio, pp. [12], 222. Contemporary (likely original) vellum, fragment of the original printed paper label on spine. Woodcut engraved ornamental title page, the upper right corner chipped and replaced with paper appropriated from the lower left corner of the rear free endpaper, otherwise a very good, complete (222 pages) copy, and this is an unexpected binding to find surviving on this book. Engraved headpieces and tailpieces. Machiavelli's most advanced intellectual development and his most sustained engagement with the problem of political transformation over time. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici in November 1520, this work emerged from Machiavelli's desire to return to political life following his exile after the fall of the Florentine Republic in 1512. The work follows humanist historiographical traditions by organizing narrative into books with crafted speeches, yet unfolds within a broader philosophical framework examining the struggle between virtue and fortune. Unlike his earlier political treatises, the “Histories” demonstrates Machiavelli's sophisticated understanding of historical periodization, tracing Florence's evolution from medieval commune through republican greatness to factional decline. Central to the work is Florence's destructive factionalism, which Machiavelli contrasts with the productive conflicts of ancient Rome, showing how internal divisions left Florence fragmented and morally compromised. Rather than depending uncritically on his sources, Machiavelli consciously appropriated and subverted earlier chroniclers, creating a confrontation between his analytical language and traditional historical narratives. This approach enabled him to examine political causation through secular analysis, departing from providential interpretations in favor of understanding how individual agency and circumstantial necessity interact within historical processes. The "Histories" reflects long-standing interests integral to Machiavelli's political theory and his persistent critique of Florentine politics, building upon his earlier historical writing including the 1504 "Decennale." The narrative pivots around Cosimo de' Medici's return from exile in 1434 and includes vivid character sketches, particularly of the Medici family, alongside subtle critiques of the Church. Thomas Bedingfield's 1595 English translation brought Machiavelli's historical methodology to Tudor England during a period of intense political transformation under Elizabeth I. The translation's publication positioned Machiavelli within English humanist literary culture, making his analytical approach to historical causation accessible to English political theorists grappling with questions of statecraft and national identity. The enduring importance of the "Florentine Histories" lies in its demonstration of how historical analysis can serve as a laboratory for understanding political development. Through his examination of Florence's cycles of rise and decline, Machiavelli created a model for historical writing that influenced subsequent historians from Guicciardini through the Enlightenment, establishing principles for analyzing the mechanisms of political transformation that continue to inform historical and political scholarship.
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PRESSED WAFER BROADSIDES FOR JOHN WATERS

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PRESSED WAFER BROADSIDES FOR JOHN WATERS
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
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New York: Pressed Wafer, 2000. cloth-backed heavy cardstock portfolio, 52 broadsides loosely inserted. Pressed Wafer. 4to. cloth-backed heavy cardstock portfolio, 52 broadsides loosely inserted. Limited to 26 lettered copies, of which this is letter 'V'. A fine copy. This collection of broadsides endows the first annual Pressed Wafer Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to John Wieners on April 8, 2000 in Boston. This portfolio was subsequently made into a book titled The Blind See Only This World after a title from John's pamphlet Pressed Wafer. All broadsides are signed except Robert Duncan and Ed Dorn. Contributors include: John Ashbery, Paul Auster, Amiri Baraka, Edward Barrett, Jim Behrle, Bill Berkson, Daniel Bouchard, Clark Coolidge, William Corbett, Robert Creeley, Tim Davis, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, Jim Dunn, Kenward Elmslie, Elaine Equi, Larry Fagin, Michael Franco, Michael Friedman, Merrill Gilfillan, Peter Gizzi, Michael Gizzi, JohnGodfrey, Barbara Guest, Thom Gunn, Jim Harrison, Lee Harwood, Stratis Haviaras, Fanny Howe, Susan Howe, August Kleinzahler, Joanne Kyger,Gerrit Lansing, Frank Lima, Bernadette Mayer, Gail Mazur, Nathaniel Mackey, Askold Melnyczuk, Charles North, Ron Padgett, Michael Palmer, Andrew Schelling, Charles Simic, James Tate, Joseph Torra, Paul Violi, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, Dara Wier, Elizabeth Willis, JohnYau, and Geoffrey Young.
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Medicina practica, sive Methodus cognoscendorum, & curandorum omnium corporis humani affectuum by [16TH-CENTURY MEDICINE] -- [CAPIVACCIO, Girolamo (1523-1589)]

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Medicina practica, sive Methodus cognoscendorum, & curandorum omnium corporis humani affectuum
Author
[16TH-CENTURY MEDICINE] -- [CAPIVACCIO, Girolamo (1523-1589)]
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Venice: apud haeredes Melchioris Sessae, 1598. First Venice Edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio (310 x 210mm). [2],175pp., [1], 301pp. [2], 12pp., 175pp., [1]. Contemporary dark brown goatskin, (title and preliminaries lacking and supplied in early manuscript with illustrated printer’s device, some browning and staining least severe after page 9). 17th-century inscriptions on rear endpaper for Index Capitum, a medical student’s description of the various parts. Pictorial wood-engraved ex-libris by Leo Wyatt for Lord Norwich on front endpaper. Sold as is. First Venice Edition of Capivaccio’s philosophical ‘practica’ in Galenic teachings, a pillar for medical students of the Renaissance. First edition printed in Frankfurt in 1594 under the title “Practica Medicina.” Capivaccio’s lectures were posthumously edited by Johann Hartmann Beyer. This is the first Venice edition of these lectures on the healing sciences by one of the leading Italian medical practitioners of his time is edited by Giovanni Bernardo Sessa. Capivaccio died at Padua in 1589, where he had taught at the university for 27 years. He was a specialist in venereal diseases for which he had developed certain successful cures, guarding his secrets jealously from colleagues. Capivaccio applied a philosophical approach to his practica, so much so that it is doubtful if it was ever much used as a vade mecum. By writing at such great lengths, it is clear Capivaccio wished to educate students rather than give them a handbook. Apart from the wish to restore Galenic teachings and to educate students, one motive for Capivaccio’s practica may have been to bolster the claims of university doctors over the central providers of medical expertise in the Renaissance, namely, priests, wise-women, magicians, herbalists and travelling empirics. This work important to the reform of the practice of medicine and to the wider concept of dogmatism or rationalism in medicine, the Renaissance physician could use Capivaccio’s work to locate the causes of diseases as well as its signs. NLM/Durling 816.
Ruth Asawa / Arthur Secunda (Exhibition Brochure)

Ruth Asawa / Arthur Secunda (Exhibition Brochure) by ASAWA, Ruth and Arthur Secunda

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Ruth Asawa / Arthur Secunda (Exhibition Brochure)
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ASAWA, Ruth and Arthur Secunda
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Harper's Books (United States)
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Small bump to foot of spine, with minor toning to margins of front panel; a near fine copy of a scarce document.
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Los Angeles: Ankrum Gallery, 1962. Small bump to foot of spine, with minor toning to margins of front panel; a near fine copy of a scarce document.. Bifolium brochure from a key exhibition in Ruth Asawa's career; her first show in Los Angeles, which gained praise in the inaugural issue of Artforum—"[Asawa's is] surely among the most original and satisfying new sculpture to have arisen in the western United States." Folded sheet of laid paper (9.75 x 6.5 inches), with loose leaf that reproduces b&w photos of two of her wire sculptures, which then-belonged to Philip Johnson and Norman Rockefeller. The front panel of the brochure is illustrated by a striking collage of her Doors and Sculpture. The Ankrum Gallery exhibition also featured work from Asawa's friend Arthur Secunda, with a color reproduction of one of his painting printed to the brochure's interior (Night Fiesta).
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A DISCOURSE, OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH, AND DELIVERED AT THE FUNERAL, OF MRS. MARY CLAP, RELICT OF THE LATE REV. PRESIDENT CLAP. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPTEMBER 23D, 1769. IN THE LXVIth YEAR OF HER AGE by Whittelsey, Chauncey

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A DISCOURSE, OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH, AND DELIVERED AT THE FUNERAL, OF MRS. MARY CLAP, RELICT OF THE LATE REV. PRESIDENT CLAP. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPTEMBER 23D, 1769. IN THE LXVIth YEAR OF HER AGE
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Whittelsey, Chauncey
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
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New-Haven: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, 1769. 24pp. Stitched into modern marbled wrappers. Toned with a little foxing. Else Very Good. With contemporary ownership signature of "Anne Williams her Book". Whittelsey was Pastor of the First Church in New Haven. Mary Clap was the widow of the President of Yale College, Thomas Clap. Reverend Whittelsey describes her excellent character; a long footnote chronicles her ancestry. Evans 11530. Trumbull 1650. Sabin 103787. ESTC W38065 [7 locations as of May 2018].
Powder River Invasion: War on the Rustlers in 1892

Powder River Invasion: War on the Rustlers in 1892 by Mercer. A. S, Rewritten by John Mercer Boots

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Powder River Invasion: War on the Rustlers in 1892
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Mercer. A. S, Rewritten by John Mercer Boots
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Thorn Books (United States)
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Very good
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n.p. (Los Angeles): n.p., 1923. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 146pp.. Blue cloth, gilt title on the upper board. Light wear and soil. stain in front endpaper gutter, 1931 clipping pasted to front pastedown recounting the 1931 death of Edward Towne, a Cheyenne newspaperman, who in 1892, accompanied as a staff correspondent a group of stockmen and Texas gunmen into Johnson county to end cattle rustling. Previous owner name and address on front free endpaper in pencil. First issued by A. S. Mercer in 1894, the edition was mostly burned by "interested authorities". CFondisered the basic authority of the Johnson County War. HOwes, M-522; Six-Guns, 1478; Herd 1474; Grafg 2750.o .
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James Weld Towne. Pioneer San Francisco Printer, Publisher and Paper Purveyor. by Johnson, Bruce L.

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James Weld Towne. Pioneer San Francisco Printer, Publisher and Paper Purveyor.
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Johnson, Bruce L.
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Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
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Fine
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2008 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 275 copies designed and typeset by Patrick Reagh. Small quarto. xiii, [1], 214pp. 31 photographic illustrations, many in color, including portraits, views, numerous title pages and facsimiles, etc. Notes, appendices, index. Purple linen lettered in copper with acetate jacket. A very fine copy. An in-depth study of Towne (1829-1917), one of San Francisco's earliest and most influential commercial printers. Towne produced an enormous volume of printed material in San Francisco during the period 1853-1868 including Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine, Cronise's The Natural Wealth of California, and much more. This work is the first monograph on the subject, based on unique 19th century San Francisco business archives. The exhaustive list of Towne imprints in the Appendices is very important and useful. Original announcement laid in..
STEVE McQUEEN WITH RACE CAR | LE MANS (1971) French photo

STEVE McQUEEN WITH RACE CAR | LE MANS (1971) French photo by Cinema Center Films

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STEVE McQUEEN WITH RACE CAR | LE MANS (1971) French photo
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Cinema Center Films
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Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Cinema Center Films. No binding. Fine. France: Cinema Center Films, [1971]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white glossy photo. Remnants of original paper glue on verso. Fine. Filmed during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, France, in 1970, this fast-paced drama follows Michael Delaney (Steve McQueen), a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. With a brilliant star, an exciting setting and real-life adventure, the film seemed to have everything going for it -- except for a strong script. A troubled production, McQueen envisioned it as a star vehicle but was so discouraged that he did not attend the film's premiere.
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Images from within by Teske, Edmund

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Images from within
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Teske, Edmund
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J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
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Very Good
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1980. Paperback. Very Good. Folio. (Untitled #22).Large photos showing solarization techniques. Frank Lloyd Wright portrait, Holllyhock House & Studio, Taliesin, etc. Chronology of exhibitions, etc. in rear, 1911-80. Frank Lloyd Wright's favorite photographer.
Red Sun South

Red Sun South by Wynd, Oswald

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Red Sun South
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Wynd, Oswald
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ReadInk (United States)
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Fair in Good+ dj
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Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc.. Fair in Good+ dj. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [book is solid enough, but the cloth has deteriorated in several places (top and bottom edges) exposing the boards; one-time owner's signature on front pastedown; jacket and the boards exposedbeen worn (or eaten?) through in several places, exposing the boards; the jacket is edgeworn, with various small tears and shallow chipping, minor paper loss at base of spine, tiny smudge on front panel, slight fading to spine]. Wynd's scarce second novel, set during the 3-1/2-year Japanese occupation of Singapore during World War II (1942-1945), a time when the city was "teeming with people of all races [and was] tense with conflicts between Japanese conquerors and humiliated former rulers." The narrative, focusing on four Eurasian characters, "probes searchingly into the age-old conflicts, the psychological problems and humiliations that confront persons of mixed blood at every turn." The author himself had been captured by the Japanese while serving with the British Army in Malaya, and spent much of the war in a POW camp. .
The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642
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The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642 by Woodward, Donald (ed.)

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Title
The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642
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Woodward, Donald (ed.)
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780197260296
Condition
Very good, clean and tight text; ex-lib. with usual markings and pocket; bookplate inside front cover
Description
London: Oxford University Press, 1984. Hardbound. Very good, clean and tight text; ex-lib. with usual markings and pocket; bookplate inside front cover. Forest green cloth with gold lettering; 347 pp. with 1 figure, 5 plates and 5 maps. Includes a glossary and linguistic commentary by Peter McClure.
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William Albert Allard: Five Decades, A Retrospective by ALLARD, William Albert

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William Albert Allard: Five Decades, A Retrospective
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ALLARD, William Albert
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
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fine
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Washington: National Geographic, 2010. hardcover. fine/fine. Allard, William Albert. Foreword by William Kittredge. Illustrated throughout in striking b/w photographs. 304pp. Wide 4to, red cloth, d.w. Washington: National Geographic, (2010). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
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What Democracy Meant to the Greeks by AGARD, Walter R

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What Democracy Meant to the Greeks
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AGARD, Walter R
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Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
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Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina, 1942., 1942. First edition. 8vo. Includes bibliography. Dust jacket (price clipped). Very good. 278 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
Calendar for the year 1898, "Make Cooking Easy, T.F. Foss & Sons, 111-113 Exchange St. Portland, Me

Calendar for the year 1898, "Make Cooking Easy, T.F. Foss & Sons, 111-113 Exchange St. Portland, Me by GLENWOOD RANGES

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Calendar for the year 1898, "Make Cooking Easy, T.F. Foss & Sons, 111-113 Exchange St. Portland, Me
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GLENWOOD RANGES
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
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Near fine
Description
[Portland, Maine]: No publisher noted, 1897. Staplebound. Near fine. [ADVERTISING PREMIUM] [COOKERY] [CALENDAR]. 6 ¼" x 2 15/16"; color printed recto only; calendar complete and stapled to front; unused, near fine. A calendar advertising premium for Glenwood Ranges, whose motto was "Make Cooking Easy." The Weir Stove Co. of Taunton, Mass. made cast iron, coal-burning stoves called Glenwood Ranges starting in the 1870s. The company was known for good worker relations and pay, craftsmanship and philanthropy. The calendar was compliments of T.F. Foss & Sons, a Portland, Maine furniture store.

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