Lot n° 6
Estimation :
5000 - 6000
EUR
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (Miguel de 1547-1616). - Lot 6
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (Miguel de 1547-1616).
Segunda parte del Ingenioso Cavallero don Quixote de la Mancha. Por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra autor de en Bruselas. Huberto Antonio, impressor jurado cerca del Palacio, 1616. Fort petit in-8 (18x11 cm), contemporary vellum (small 6 mm loss, 1st plate spine), author and title handwritten and partly erased on spine. (16)-687 pages. *8-A-Z 8-A-V 8 folios, some initials (no freckling, quires a little out of order), divided into 74 chapters (with pagination number errors: 41 instead of 51, 257 for 247, 413 for 431, 525 for 552, 581 for 591, and in the table, chapter 74 979 for 679). The blank fore-title leaf has been trimmed to reinforce the inner margin of the title, handwritten bookplate formerly crossed out on the title page. First Brussels edition of the second part, published a few months after the first edition published in Madrid in 1615. The edition of the second part was sold separately, as the first part of don Quixote was published in 1605. This edition was completed a few days before Cervantes' death. Ref : Ford-Lansing, Peteer-Fontainas, Brunet, L. Ruis. Sought-after edition.
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