Oct 24 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2683 -

Sale 2683 - Lot 81

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
Novelas Exemplares.

Pamplona: Nicolas y Assiayn, 1614.

Third edition, octavo, nicely preserved in full contemporary parchment, textblock becoming detached from cover; lacking front flyleaf; back pastedown and flyleaf torn away; lacking ties, contents generally very good with some minor marginal worming and one paper flaw that caused a printing flaw, obscured words provided in a neat contemporary hand, a nice copy; 5 3/4 x 4 in.

Palau 53401; Rius 221.

[Together with] two other editions of the same title: Madrid: Alonso Martin, 1622, bound in full contemporary limp parchment; lacking ties and front flyleaf; textblock becoming detached from cover, unrestored; 5 7/8 x 4 in. Rius 229; Palau 53408. [and] Brussels: Por Huberto Antonio, 1625, large octavo, bound in early parchment over boards, title page mounted, signature inked out; 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in. Rius 233. (3)

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.