Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 60

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote in French]. Le Valeureux Don Quixote de la Manche.

Paris: Chez Denys Moreau, 1632 [and] Paris: Jean Mestais, 1625.

Two octavo volumes, first title page with engraved vignette of Quixote, the two volumes likely sold by the publisher as a set, bound in uniform contemporary limp parchment, numerous faults to contents, including worming, compromised sewing structure, significant corner damage, tears, and water stains, volume two decased; each volume housed in custom red cloth cases; 6 1/2 x 4 in. each. (2)

Palau III 52697 & 52698; Rius addenda 1075; all 17th century French editions of Quixote are rare at auction.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.