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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.

Vida y hechos del ingenioso cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha [...] parte primera (-parte segunda).

Amberes: En casa de Geronymo y Juanbautista Verdussen, 1673.

2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Item #002028

1673-1672. 2 volumes. 8vo (176x104 mm). [20], 611, [5]; [16], 649, [7], including engraved frontispiece to each volume and 32 engraved plates (16 for each volume). Near contemporary full red morocco, spines with 5 raised bands richly gilt in compartments and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, inner hinge of vol. I repaired, plate fol. 198 with repair to lower corner without loss, plate fol. 607 in vol. II offset with upper margin trimmed just touching image. Text with only very minor spotting and light age-toning, few leaves with faint dampstain to lower margin. A very fine copy of this rare edition. ----

Palau 51998. Rare edition, which follows the Brussels 1662 edition by Mommarte. The beautiful illustrations are taken from drawings by Jacob Savery and Frederik Bouttats, half were engraved by the same Bouttats. Volume I is dated 1673 and volume II is dated 1672.

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