Cervantes Miguel de (1547 1616) [Don Quixote in German] Don

Sale 2683 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 780

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote in German]. Don Quixote von Mancha. Abentheurliche Geschichte.

Basel and Frankfurt: Johann Ludwig du Four, 1682.

First complete translation of Don Quixote in German, two octavo volumes illustrated with two added engraved title pages and 32 full-page plates; bound in full contemporary German parchment over boards; (several margins torn, some with slight losses to a few letters; lacking signature Kk in volume two (eight leaves comprising pages 505 through 520), no evidence that the signature was ever present or removed; printed in black letter, some toning; half-titles present in both volumes; final leaf in first volume stuck to inside back board); 6 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (2)

Palau II 25n; rare at auction and in institutional holdings.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.

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