Sale 2683 - Lot 69
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Sale 2683 - Lot 69
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 8,000
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Don Quixote in Spanish, Ibarra's Academy Edition]. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Nueva Edicion Corregida por la Real Academia Español.
Madrid: Con Superior Permiso por Don Joaquin Ibarra, Impresor de Cámara de S.M. y de la Real Academia, 1780.
First edition, four large quarto volumes illustrated with 31 full-paged plates, folding engraved map, and numerous engraved vignettes, capitals, and head- and tail-pieces; bound in full contemporary tree calf with gilt heraldic emblem of Charles Ashburnham on front boards; flat spines ornately tooled in gilt; all edges gilt, each volume housed in a custom slipcase, bookseller's ticket of Pickering & Chatto; bookplate of Jean Furstenberg; a beautifully preserved copy of a beautifully designed work; 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (4)
From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
[Don Quixote in Spanish, Ibarra's Academy Edition]. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Nueva Edicion Corregida por la Real Academia Español.
Madrid: Con Superior Permiso por Don Joaquin Ibarra, Impresor de Cámara de S.M. y de la Real Academia, 1780.
First edition, four large quarto volumes illustrated with 31 full-paged plates, folding engraved map, and numerous engraved vignettes, capitals, and head- and tail-pieces; bound in full contemporary tree calf with gilt heraldic emblem of Charles Ashburnham on front boards; flat spines ornately tooled in gilt; all edges gilt, each volume housed in a custom slipcase, bookseller's ticket of Pickering & Chatto; bookplate of Jean Furstenberg; a beautifully preserved copy of a beautifully designed work; 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (4)
From the Ken Rapoport Collection.