Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 8,000
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote in Spanish, First Madrid Edition of Both Parts]. Primera y Segunda Parte del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Madrid: en la Imprenta de Francisco Martinez, 1637.

Two quarto volumes; part two title page dated 1636; the two uniformly bound in full contemporary limp parchment bindings, some repairs, lacking ties, endleaves renewed; the two housed in separate modern red cloth folding boxes; some toning; contemporary handwritten signature to both title pages, "Gio. Filippo Sertorio"; some toning and browning to contents, a few tears, paper flaws; purchased from Quaritch in 1981; each 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in. (2)

Rius 17; Seris 16; rare at auction.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.