Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha

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Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. London: Tonson, Draper, and Dodsley, 1756.
Two large quarto volumes, translated by Charles Jervas [aka Jarvis] (1675-1739),illustrated with a frontispiece and sixty-eight full-paged consecutively numbered plates, engraved by Gerard Vandergucht (1697-1776) after John Vanderbank (1694-1739),good, in modern half calf and marbled paper boards, old labels retained, 11 1/3 x 9 in. (2)
Estimate $300-500

I: A4, a-d4, A4, a-n4, B-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa4, Bbb2; II: A4, a2, B-Z4, AaZz4, Aaa-Ddd4, Eee3.


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