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Cervantes, Don Quixote, Antwerp, 1697, 2 volumes

Auction Closed

December 3, 04:27 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE

Vida y hechos del ingenioso cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha... nueva edicion, coregida y ilustrada. Antwerp: Jerome Verdussen (Henrick and Cornelis Verdussen), 1697


2 volumes, 8vo (172 x 102mm.), 2 engraved frontispieces, woodcut device on title-pages, 32 engraved plates, woodcut initials and tailpieces, modern crushed red morocco, lacking p4-5 in volume 1, a few small rust holes, occasional light browning


The engravings were first used by Verdussen for the 1673 edition; the title-pages are also found in the 1662 Brussels edition.


LITERATURE:

Palau 52000; Ashbee 10; Peeters-Fontainas 233