Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 10,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
Exemplarie Novells; in Sixe Books.

London: Printed by John Dawson for R.M., to be sold by Laurence Blaicklocke, 1640.



First edition, translated by James Mabbe, folio, lacking final blank; bound in modern calf, antique style; 18th century signature of John William Chelcott of Cornwall crossed out on title page; purchased by the current owner from Seven Gables in 1972; contents not washed; the Brent Gration-Maxfield copy, with his signature and extensive notes in pencil on front pastedown and flyleaf, and gilt-tooled ex libris inside the turn-in; 10 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.

STC 4914; Wither to Prior 531; Rius 925; rare at auction.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.