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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) Los Trabaios de Persiles y Sigismunda.
Valencia: por Pedro Patricio Mey, 1617.
First Valencia edition (printed in the same year as the Madrid original), octavo, woodcut device to title page, very nicely preserved in full contemporary parchment, housed in a custom folding box; lacking ties; contents very good; 5 3/4 x 4 in.
Palau 53896; Rius 349.
[Together with] Los Trabaios de Persiles, y Sigismunda. Historia Septentrional, [Madrid: Por Juan de la Cuesta, 1617], a pirated edition likely printed by Melchior Sanchez in the 1660s; quarto, woodcut device to title page, text printed in two columns throughout, bound in full 20th century polished burgundy morocco by R. Richard, housed in a slipcase; ex libris Matias Errazuriz, with bookplate; purchased at Sotheby's in 1984; 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. (2)
