Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote in Spanish, Illustrated]. Vida y Hechos del Ingenioso Cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Brussels: Juan Mommarte, 1662.

First illustrated Spanish edition; two octavo volumes; added engraved title pages in each volume and sixteen full page engravings (eight in each volume); bound in full contemporary parchment over boards with spines stained brown and tooled in gilt contemporary or near-contemporary with red lettering pieces (possibly done by the English collector in 1687 for aesthetic purposes); edges stained red; ex libris Charles Peers with his inscriptions dated 1687 in both volumes; bookplates of Paul Wansbrough; 7 1/8 x 4 3/8 in.

Salva 1557; Palau 51993; Heredia 5962; Rius 20.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.