Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 17,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote in English, First American Edition]. The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote.

Philadelphia: Published by John Conrad & Co., R. Groff, Printer, 1803.

Four octavo volumes, translated into English by Tobias Smollet; the novel issued as volumes X-XIII in John Conrad's Select Novels series, published separately by Birch & Small in 1811-1812; the set bound in uniform contemporary speckled calf, numbered in gilt on the spines, lacking three of four labels; Japanese tissue repairs to joints; housed in a modern custom buckram case; contents toned, with some other defects; very rare in commerce; 6 1/2 x 4 in. (4)

Rius 660.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.