MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo (1469-1527). The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Translated by Henry Neville. London: for John Starkey, 1675. 4 parts in one volume, folio (325 x 194 mm). Sectional titles to The History of Florence, The Prince, The Discourses and The Art of War. Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked to style). Provenance: William Cornelius English (early signature on title-page); Francis Pigott (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION of the collected works in English, though each of these works had been previously published separately in English. "Macchiavelli founded the science of modern politics on the study of mankind...Politics was a science to be divorced entirely from ethics, and nothing must stand in the way of its machinery" (PMM 63). Wing M-128A; ESTC R19906.