Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 27,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote in Spanish, First Collected Edition]. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha; [and] Segunda Parte del Ingenioso Cavallero Don Quixote.

Barcelona: Impresso en casa de Bautista Sorita a costa de Raphael Vives, [and] en casa de Sebastian Matevat a costa de Joan Simon, 1617.

Two octavo volumes, first collected edition with both parts issued at the same time; lacking two text leaves (Xx3 & Xx4) in the second volume, along with final blank leaf; woodcut printer's devices depicting a knight on both title pages; a mixed set with the first volume in later parchment over boards, second volume in limp parchment; scattered paper repairs; some signatures with leaves bound out of order; ownership inscriptions to title of second part, six lines crossed out in ink; some browning to contents; some headlines trimmed or cropped in the second volume; a few corners torn with loss: 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.; II: 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. (2)

Rius 16; Palau 51989.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.