Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote in Spanish, Illustrated]. Vida y Hechos del Ingenioso Cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Antwerp: Geronymo y Juanbautista Verdussen, 1673.

Two octavo volumes, each illustrated with engraved frontispieces and 30 of 32 full page plates; bound in uniform modern parchment bindings in period style; edges sprinkled red, later end leaves (lacking two plates in second volume; worming in first volume with loss of some text lines and one image, (signatures Kk-Ll) marginal worming damaged repaired, some closed tears; minor paper flaws; engraved title in first volume with edge repairs; engraved title in second volume mounted; bottom outside corner of Ee1 (page 433/434) in second volume torn with loss to six lines); 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.

Rius 25; uncommon at auction.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.