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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Early Books. Group Lot of Five Titles in Six Volumes: 1608-1818.
Including:
1) Lope de Vega Carpio's El Peregrino en su Patria, Brussels: Roger Velpius, 1608, first Brussels edition, 12mo, woodcut device to title page; bound in half calf and marbled paper boards; 5 3/8 x 3 in.
2) L'Histoire de Primaleon de Grece, Premier Livre, Lyons: Pierre Rigaud, 1618, small octavo, woodcut illustration to title page; bound in later full parchment over boards; 4 1/4 x 2 5/8 in.
3) Lopez de Ubeda's Vita della Picara Giustina Diez, Venice: Barezzo Batezzi, 1628, octavo, two parts in one volume, woodcut devices to title page; bound in full contemporary parchment; 6 1/4 x 4 in.
4) Mateo Aleman's Le Gueux ou La Vie de Guzman d'Alfarache, Paris: Denys Houssaye, 1638-1639, octavo, two parts bound as one, translation to French by Jean Chapelain (1595-1674), woodcut device to title pages; bound in full contemporary limp parchment; 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.
5) Cervantes's The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote, London: F.C. & J. Rivington et alia, 1818; two 12mo volumes, translated to English by Tobias Smollett; two steel engraved frontispiece illustrations in each volume; bound in uniform publisher's printed paper boards, edges untrimmed throughout, the set a bit bumped and rubbed but rare in this state. These volumes not collated. (6)
