Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote in French]. Le Valeureux Don Quixote de la Manche.

Paris: Jean Foüet, 1616.

Second edition in French, large octavo, part one only (part two published separately); bound in contemporary limp parchment; engraved printer's device to title page; later endleaves; paper losses made up to foot of title and blank section adjacent to printer's mark; marginal paper repairs to first and last few signatures; Nn5 torn and repaired; Nn7 and Nn8 torn with loss of approximately nine lines of text on each page, paper repaired, text supplied in neat pen facsimile; lacking two leaves of table of contents bound at the end, AAa1 and AAa4, both supplied in photocopy facsimile and bound in place; a few top borders repaired; 6 3/4 x 4 3/8 in.

Givanel 29; Palau 52694; Rius 460.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.