Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote in French, Illustrated]. Les Principales Avantures de l'Admirable Don Quichotte.

The Hague: Pierre de Hondt, 1746.

Folio, (the same text and engravings were also printed on quarto-format paper); title page printed in red and black, engraved Quixote-themed vignette to title page; illustrated throughout with 31 full-paged engravings by Picart, plates are unnumbered; bound in full contemporary speckled French calfskin, spine tooled in gilt with red lettering piece, front joint cracked, 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.