Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665
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Sale 2665 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
Don Quixote de la Mancha. [bound with] Mayans y Siscar's The Life of Michael de Cervantes.

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1742 [and] 1738.

First edition, two large quarto volumes, Don Quixote translated from Spanish to English by Charles Jervas (circa 1675-1739), the biography translated by John Ozell (d. 1743); half-title present in first volume, illustrated frontispiece opposite biography and sixty-eight numbered full-page plates in the Quixote, (plate one bound as general frontispiece); the majority engraved by Gerard van der Gucht (1696-1776) after John Vanderbank (1694-1739); bound in full contemporary uniform red morocco tooled in gilt, with some rubbing and wear to joints; all edges gilt, marbled endleaves; ex libris J. White of Queens College, Cambridge, with armorial bookplate; and bookplate of U.S. District Attorney for Massachusetts, Asa P. French (1860-1935) inside front board; purchased at Christie's in 2011; 11 1/4 x 9 in.

From the Library of the late Stanley DeForest Scott, sold to benefit the Library of the Grolier Club.
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