Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote in Spanish with Annotations by Pellicer]. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, Nueva Edicion.

Madrid: Gabriel de Sancha, 1797-98.



First edition, 5 octavo volumes, a large paper copy; illustrated with 2 engraved frontispieces, 31 plates and 3 folding maps, along with head-pieces; bound in full uniform ornately tooled red morocco by Clarke & Bedford, top edge gilt, other edges left rough; nicely preserved; small pencil notation on front fly leaf indicating that this copy is one of two purchased by La Duquesa del Infantado; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (5)

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.