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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE. Vida y Hechos del Ingenioso Cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha . . . Nueva Edicion. 32 engraved plates. [20], 611, [5]; [16], 649, [7] pages, including engraved additional titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, 169x119 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine ends damaged and wormed, joints cracked, cords intact, horizontal strip of leather torn off Volume 1 rear cover; worming in inner corners and lower margins through much of Volume 1 minimally affecting text but occasionally entering illustrations, opening leaves loose with dampstaining in lower outer corners, piece torn from bottom of plate facing page 23 with slight image loss, figures in plate facing page 103 traced in ink on verso, worming through upper inner corners in first half of Volume 2 affecting running heads and slightly entering illustrations, dark stain in upper margin of Oo2. Antwerp: Geronymo y Juanbautista Verdussen, 1673-72
Reprint of the 1662 Brussels edition, which had been the first in Spanish with illustrations. The first illustrated Quixote was the 1657 first edition in Dutch. Palau 51998; Peeters-Fontainas 232.
