Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 78

Price Realized: $ 47,500
?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]. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Brussels: Por Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. [and] Brussels: Por Huberto Antonio, 1616.

Two octavo volumes of these lifetime Brussels editions; bound in uniform full 19th century red morocco, ornately tooled in gilt, aeg.; with stamps of Trinity College Cambridge on page 51 in each volume, with de-accession stamps applied to versos of final leaves when the volumes were sold as duplicates in 1859; some margins trimmed with slight loss; 6 3/8 x 3 3/4 in. (2)

I: Bonsoms 12; Heredia 2153; Palau 51984; Rius 10; Seris; Salva 1551. II: Bonsoms 13; Heredia 2516; Palau 51986; Rius 13; Seris 13; Salva 1553.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.