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Books, Autographs & Prints / Part II

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

El ingenioso hidalgo D. Quijote de la Mancha, 1819

Estimate

€ 250 - 300

Sold

€ 742

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1819. In 8th. 4 volumes, frieze with motto on the four title pages, a total of 20 engraved numbered plates including the folded plate with map (hand-colored on a border), fresh copy, some defects and small lacks on the binding, very light blooms & nbsp; & nbsp; and sporadic holes woodworm, marginal tear on the folded table, coeval binding in brown leather, gold friezes and inserts with editorial data on the back, red cuts. Together with: Navarrete, Vida de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra escrita and ilustrada con varias noticias y documentos [...], Madrid, Imprenta Reale, 1819. In 8 °. 4 folded plates and 1 portrait of Cervantes, some woodworm holes, same binding.
Cervantes' immortal masterpiece in a splendid nineteenth-century fourth edition curated by the Real Academia Española. The four-volume specimen comes complete with the plates engraved by J. Rivelles, T. Lopez and A. Blanco and the large map folded several times that illustrates the path of the protagonists. A fifth volume is added to the work of Don Quixote which consists of a biography of Cervantes edited by Navarrete, also illustrated by a portrait of the author and folded tables with genealogical tree and family structure.

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