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(inscribed to Édouard CHIMOT) after Miguel de CERVANTES
Don Quichotte de la Manche. Comédie héroïque en cinq actes, en vers[Don Quixote of La Mancha. A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts, in Verse]
Editions Excelsior|Paris 1934|14 x 19.3 cm|Broché
First edition.
Wrappers illustrated by Louis Icart.
Exceptional signed autograph inscription by Louis Icart: "à mon ami, au peintre Edouard Chimot \"Gouverneur de... Javea\" - ces scènes rapportées d'Espagne ! En hommage cordial. Louis Icart."
€1,000
Jakob FOLKEMA, Simon FOKKE
Histoire de l'admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche
Chez Arkstée & Merkus|à Amsterdam • et Leipzig 1768|12.20 x 18 cm|6 volumes reliés
Edition of the translation by François Filleau de Saint-Martin, illustrated with 31 copperplate engravings by Folkema and Fokke after Antoine Coypel, as well as a portrait of the author as frontispiece engraved by Folkema after G. Kent at the head of the first volume. Title pages in black and red accompanied by engraved vignettes for each volume preceded by a half-title page on each. First volume complete with an engraved half-title. Numerous tailpieces.
Pastiche Bradel bindings in full fuchsia pink paper boards, smooth brown spines decorated with small gilt tools and fillets, gilt date at foot of spines, covers decorated with double gilt fillet border, original red paper board waiting...
€3,000
Miguel de CERVANTES
Histoire de l'admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche
Chez Rigollet|A Lyon 1738|9 x 16.80 cm|6 volumes reliés
New edition illustrated with 52 unsigned plates, including 6 frontispieces. Volume V is a continuation of the history of Don Quixote, by the translator Filleau de Saint Martin. Volume VI written by the author Robert Challes. Title pages erroneously indicate 58 figures.
Brown full contemporary roan, stamped in gilt in between raised bands. Title page in red morocco. Small piece of leather lacking to upper part of Volume I, small loss to head of spine. In volume II, upper spine-end torn off and lower spine-end partly missing, some damage to lower cover. Volume III, damaged upper spine-end. Volume IV, lower spine-end missing. Volume V, upper spine-end missing. Volume VI, upper spine-end...
€1,500
Miguel de CERVANTES
L'ingénieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche
Dubochet et Cie|Paris 1836 - 1837|17.50 x 27 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition translated by Louis Viardot and illustrated by Tony Johannot in first printing. Two frontispieces printed on China paper, two engraved title pages, and 800 large text vignettes.
Half chocolate morocco binding ca 1880. Raised band spine decorated with richly ornamented compartments with central roundel. Chocolate morocco title and volume labels. Double fillet border on boards. Top edge gilt. Light traces of rubbing to edges. Copy of exceptional freshness, perfectly white and free from foxing, for an edition that is always foxed. Uncut set, with full margins.
Famous Romantic illustrated book; one of Johannot's finest productions, along with Voyage où il vous...
€900
Miguel de CERVANTES
Histoire de l'admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche, traduction de Filleau de Saint-Martin ; avec un essai sur la vie et les ouvrages de Cervantès par M. Auger
Delongchamps|Paris 1825|12.50 x 20.50 cm|6 volumes reliés
New edition of the French translation established by Filleau de Saint-Martin.
Half navy glazed calf bindings, smooth spines decorated with central floral motifs, gilt friezes at head and foot, traces of rubbing on spines, spine of the sixth volume with a marginal lack of leather, red morocco work title, olive morocco volume labels, upper headcaps rubbed, marbled paper boards bordered with a blind floral frieze, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some corners slightly bumped, marbled edges, slightly later Romantic bindings.
Work illustrated, as frontispieces to the 6 volumes, with a portrait of Miguel de Cervantes engraved by Lefèvre after Devéria, as well as 5 other engravings after...
€450
(Miguel de CERVANTES)
Le desespoir amoureux, avec les nouvelles visions de Don Quichotte, histoire espagnole
Aux dépens de La Compagnie|à Amsterdam 1747|9.50 x 16.50 cm|2 parties en un volume relié
New edition, rare, of which the first edition appears to have been published in 1715. 2 frontispieces and 4 figures for volume I, 2 for the second, all unsigned. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full glazed brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title label. Split headcaps. Lacks to title label. Upper joint split at tail.
In 1609 appeared Homicidio de la fidelidad y la defensa del honor, which brought together for the first time in France under an invented Spanish title, various texts and stories extracted from Don Quixote in French in Nicolas Baudoin's translation. These first extracts were assembled over 125 pages, they were expanded in...
€450