Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote in Spanish]. Primera y Segunda Parte del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Madrid: A Costa de Juan Antonio Bonet y Francisco Serrano, 1647.

Large quarto, two parts bound in one volume, lacking two preliminary leaves that were never bound in (¶¶3 & 4); extensive waterstains to first part, annotations to both title pages circa 1694; textblock broken in two at signature Vv; ex libris C.S. Smith, title page signed in 1898; bound in full contemporary parchment, housed in custom buckram folding box; purchased from Quaritch in 1984; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.

Rius 18; Seris 17; Palau 51991; rare at auction.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.