[Rarebooks] fa: CERVANTES - DON QUICHOTTE DE LA MANCHE 1768 - 6 vols./34 Plates/DEROME BINDINGS

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Happy 2016. Listed now, auction ending Sunday, January 10. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain

Miguel de Cervantes [Filleau de Saint-Martin, trans.]: Histoire de l'Admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche, traduit de l'Espagnol de Michel de Cervantes. Enrichie des belles figures dessinés de Coypel & gravées par Folkema & Fokke. Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkstée & Merkus, MDCCLXVIII [1768]. Six volumes, 12mo (17.25 cm), in full period russet crushed morocco by Derome le jeune (fl.  1758-1788), with gilt borders, lettering and decorations, elaborately gilt-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt page edges; [12], 370 pp.; [6], 369 pp.; [8], 371 pp.; [8], 453 pp.; [8], 420 pp.; [8], 422, [2] pp.; with the half-titles, engraved title-page vignettes, and 32 engraved plates (complete as listed). Cohen-Ricci 434.

Cohen-Ricci mentions a portrait of Cervantes, but none is listed in the instructions to the binder or accounted for in the plate numbering, which begins with the extra engraved half-title in vol. I (plate I) and ends with plate XXXII ("Don Quichotte est delivré de sa folie…") in vol. V. Complete in six volumes, though the set is sometimes found with the two-volume Nouvelles de Cervantes issued by the same publisher. Minor wear and rubbing to the bindings, two or three boards with small scuff marks; contents mildly toned with occasional light spotting and offsetting to and from the plates, a few scattered spots elsewhere; otherwise clean and sound, firmly bound. A lovely example of a handsomely-produced set. Front endpaper of vol. I with the small printed binder's label: "Relié par Derome le jeune, rue St. Jâque au dessus de St. Benoist." From the library of the Comte de Soyecourt, with his engraved booklabel on the front paste-down; later armorial bookplates of Henri Chasles and Ross Ambler Curran.