Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 2,500
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote in French]. Histoire de l'Admirable Don Quixotte de la Manche.

Paris: Claude Barbin, 1681.

Second edition of the French translation by François Filleau de Saint-Martin (1632-1695); four 12mo volumes illustrated with four added engraved titles and thirty-two full-page plates; bound in uniform contemporary speckled calf boards, rebacked, spines with gilt decoration and labels; early signature of Sir John Halkett on each title page and bookplates of his home, Pitfirrane Castle (in Fife Scotland), inside each volume; with bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst in first volume; 5 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.