Cervantes, Don Quixote, Madrid, Ibarra, 1780, 4 volumes, contemporary tree calf

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE

El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha. Madrid: Joaquin Ibarra, 1780

4 volumes, 4to (288 x 218mm.), 4 engraved frontispieces, engraved portrait of the author, engraved initials, head- and tailpieces, 31 engraved plates and a double-page engraved map (at the end of volume 1), contemporary Spanish tree calf with a gilt border, flat spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces, gilt edges, all volumes damaged at foredge with some loss and staining to margins (only affecting the text on the double-page map), bindings slightly rubbed

LITERATURE:

Palau 52024; Cohen-De Ricci 218-19