CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, Madrid: Joaquin Ibarra, 1780, 4 vols., 4to, contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt floral roll-tooled borders, smooth spines gilt with green morocco volume labels, blue watered silk endleaves, g.e., modern quarter green morocco folding boxes, lower corner of title-leaf of vol. II frayed, a few other small marginal tears, scattered light foxing, 2 engraved frontispieces (both repeated), 1 portrait, and 31 engraved plates, plus numerous engraved head- and tail-piece vignettes and historiated initials, after Antonio Carnicero, Joseph del Castillo, and others, one double-page folding map of Spain, one inserted engraved portrait. Cohen-De Ricci 219; Lasala 551; Palau 52024; Updike II, pp.73-75. Fine. (4) | Christie's

Lot 13

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, Madrid: Joaquin Ibarra, 1780, 4 vols., 4to, contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt floral roll-tooled borders, smooth spines gilt with green morocco volume labels, blue watered silk endleaves, g.e., modern quarter green morocco folding boxes, lower corner of title-leaf of vol. II frayed, a few other small marginal tears, scattered light foxing, 2 engraved frontispieces (both repeated), 1 portrait, and 31 engraved plates, plus numerous engraved head- and tail-piece vignettes and historiated initials, after Antonio Carnicero, Joseph del Castillo, and others, one double-page folding map of Spain, one inserted engraved portrait. Cohen-De Ricci 219; Lasala 551; Palau 52024; Updike II, pp.73-75. Fine. (4)

Details

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, Madrid: Joaquin Ibarra, 1780, 4 vols., 4to, contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt floral roll-tooled borders, smooth spines gilt with green morocco volume labels, blue watered silk endleaves, g.e., modern quarter green morocco folding boxes, lower corner of title-leaf of vol. II frayed, a few other small marginal tears, scattered light foxing, 2 engraved frontispieces (both repeated), 1 portrait, and 31 engraved plates, plus numerous engraved head- and tail-piece vignettes and historiated initials, after Antonio Carnicero, Joseph del Castillo, and others, one double-page folding map of Spain, one inserted engraved portrait. Cohen-De Ricci 219; Lasala 551; Palau 52024; Updike II, pp.73-75. Fine. (4)

Provenance

1. Sir Francis Baring, Bart., armorial bookplate.
2. Marchal, bookplate.
3. The Garden, Ltd., bookplate (sale, Sotheby's New York, 9 November 1989, lot 81).