Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665
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Sale 2665 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote, Suite of Illustrations after Coypel.] Les Principales Avantures de L'Incomparable Chevalier Errant Don Quichotte de la Manche.

Paris: Chez Jacques-François Chereau, [n.d. circa 1747].

Oversized folio consisting of a typographically printed title page and twenty-five full page engravings after Charles-Antoine Coypel's (1694-1752) paintings, engraved by Louis Surugue, Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Ravenet, Lepicier, François Joullain, Hausard, Silvestre, Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels, Beauvais, Poilly and Nicolas Tardieu; some plates dated 1723 and 1724; imprint date assigned circa 1747, the year that Coypel was named "premier pentre du Roi"; tiny stamps on the title and on the verso of each plate, larger old armorial stamp to title; some closed tears to blank margins; one repaired with browning adhesive; bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated calf with gilt-tooled spine and marbled endleaves, unsophisticated; 22 x 16 in.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
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