The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall - first US edition

by Christopher Hibbert

First Edition. Hardcover. First US printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, touch of spotting on page edges. 8vo, beige boards, cream spine, gold lettering, 364 pp, index; 43 B&W illus; 2 maps, genealogical tables. History of the famous Florentine banking family who provided the world with some of its most colorful soldiers, art patrons, collectors, builders. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles of drawings and paintings. The embodiment of the Italian renaissance, the Medici were an enormously rich Florentine banking family.