Sale 2457 - Early Printed Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 17, 2017

88 ● CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE. Vida y Hechos del Ingenioso Cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha . . . Nueva Edicion. 32 engraved plates. [20], 611, [5]; [16], 649, [7] pages, including engraved additional titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, 169x119 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine ends damaged and wormed, joints cracked, cords intact, horizontal strip of leather torn offVolume 1 rear cover; worming in inner corners and lower margins through much ofVolume 1 minimally affecting text but occasionally entering illustrations, opening leaves loose with dampstaining in lower outer corners, piece torn from bottom of plate facing page 23 with slight image loss, figures in plate facing page 103 traced in ink on verso, worming through upper inner corners in first half ofVolume 2 affecting running heads and slightly entering illustrations, dark stain in upper margin of Oo2. Antwerp: Geronymo y JuanbautistaVerdussen, 1673-72 [2,500/3,500] Reprint of the 1662 Brussels edition, which had been the first in Spanish with illustrations. The first illustrated Quixote was the 1657 first edition in Dutch. Palau 51998; Peeters-Fontainas 232. 89 ● CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, fourth Earl of. Letters . . . to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in Volume 1 (offsetting onto title). [4], vii, [1], 368; [4], 606, [2] pages, including half-titles, and errata leaf at end of Volume 2. 2 volumes. 4to, 312x248 mm, contemporary boards, rebacked with leather, endpapers renewed; contents toned with scattered marginal foxing, uncut. FULL - MARGINED SET . London: J. Dodsley, 1774 [300/500] FIRST EDITION . First state of page 55 inVolume 1, with “quia uroit” on line 16. Rothschild 596. 88 88