Oct 24 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2683 -

Sale 2683 - Lot 74

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote in Spanish]. Four Sets. 1) Vida y Hechos del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, The Hague: P. Gosse & A. Moetjens, 1744, 4 octavo volumes, titles printed in red and black, half-titles present, illustrated with frontispiece portrait and 24 full-paged engravings; bound in uniform contemporary sponge-decorated calf, gilt spines, 6 x 3 3/4 in.

2) Vida y Hechos del Ingenioso Cavallero D. Quixote de la Mancha, Tarragona: Joseph Barber, 1757, 4 octavo volumes housed in two custom boxes, illustrated throughout with text woodcuts; each bound in uniform contemporary limp parchment, some spotting and wear to contents, 5 5/8 x 3 7/8 in.

3) El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, Madrid: Don Joachin Ibarra, 1782, four octavo volumes, illustrated with frontispiece portrait, folding map, and 23 full-paged plates; ex libris Edward Gibbon, with his book ticket in the first volume, bound in attractive speckled calf of the period, with nicely tooled spines, joints rubbed, 6 5/8 x 4 1/4 in.

4) [Another copy of the same edition], as above, with the exception of the inclusion of the instructions to the binder; this set bound in full red morocco by Derome le jeune with ticket, elaborately gilt bindings with armorial crests to each board; watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt; boards rubbed with losses to leather, some joints starting. (16)

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
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