First modern treatise on oceanography, and a challenge to Machiavelli: rulers must be moral
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BOTERO, Giovanni.
Aggiunte fatte ... alla sua ragion di stato ove si tratta dell... con una relatione del mare.
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2 [part 1]) Delleccellenze de gli antichi capitani libri due. ...
3 [part 4]) Dellagilita della forze del prencipe libri due. ...
4 [part 3]) Della riputatione del prencipe libri due. ...
5 [part 2]) Discorso della neutralita [del prencipe] ...
6 [part 5]) Discroso[!] intorno alla fortificatione ...
7 [part 6]) Relationi del mare ...
Rome, Giorgio Ferrari, 1598. A preliminary part and 6 text parts in one volume. 4to. With a general title-page and 6 part-titles, each with Ferraris woodcut device: the coat of arms of the city of Rome supported by Saints Paul and Peter, a woodcut headpiece (plus repeats), 3 woodcut tailpieces and woodcut decorated initials, decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments. Set in an italic type with incidental roman. Sheepskin parchment (ca. 1700?), sewn on 5 supports, with a hollow back, gold-tooled smooth spine divided into 6 fields with author and title in the 2nd and 3rd and a built-up ornament in the others. [22], [2 blank]; 72; 46, [2 blank]; 31, [1 blank]; 15, [1 blank]; 14, [2 blank]; 31, [1 blank] pp. Full description
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Including:
2 [part 1]) Delleccellenze de gli antichi capitani libri due. ...
3 [part 4]) Dellagilita della forze del prencipe libri due. ...
4 [part 3]) Della riputatione del prencipe libri due. ...
5 [part 2]) Discorso della neutralita [del prencipe] ...
6 [part 5]) Discroso[!] intorno alla fortificatione ...
7 [part 6]) Relationi del mare ...
Rome, Giorgio Ferrari, 1598. A preliminary part and 6 text parts in one volume. 4to. With a general title-page and 6 part-titles, each with Ferraris woodcut device: the coat of arms of the city of Rome supported by Saints Paul and Peter, a woodcut headpiece (plus repeats), 3 woodcut tailpieces and woodcut decorated initials, decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments. Set in an italic type with incidental roman. Sheepskin parchment (ca. 1700?), sewn on 5 supports, with a hollow back, gold-tooled smooth spine divided into 6 fields with author and title in the 2nd and 3rd and a built-up ornament in the others. [22], [2 blank]; 72; 46, [2 blank]; 31, [1 blank]; 15, [1 blank]; 14, [2 blank]; 31, [1 blank] pp. Full description