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Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare BooksLangendijk 8
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Don Quichot
Den verstandigen Don Quichot de la Mancha. vroomen ridder En uyt de Spaensche in onse Nederlandsche tale overgeset door L(ambert) v(anden) B(osch). Op nieuws overzien, en van veele misstellingen gezuiverd door G. van Broekhuysen. 5e druk.
Amsterdam, Willem de Coup, Willem van Lamsveld & Philip Verbeek, 1699.
2 volumes in 1. Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf, red morocco title label to spine (foot of spine sl. dam., 1 lower hinge cracked but firmly holding). With engraved frontispiece and 24 engraved plates by L. Scherm. 412; 426,(30) pp. First Dutch edition was published in 1657; first published in Spanish in 1605 - 1615 El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. This Dutch edition has the newly made plates by L Scherm after the original plates by Jacobus Savry. It was the variety, the livelines, and the gibes at the famous, which won it instant fame. Its larger claims, the subdued pathos, its universal humanity, where slower to be appreciated. Don Quixote is one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times (Printing and the mind of man 111). All 17th and 18th century editions of the Don Quixote are very rare because they were almost always read to shreds (Muller). - Some stains otherwise a fine copy.
Muller 73; Buisman 364.
2 volumes in 1. Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf, red morocco title label to spine (foot of spine sl. dam., 1 lower hinge cracked but firmly holding). With engraved frontispiece and 24 engraved plates by L. Scherm. 412; 426,(30) pp. First Dutch edition was published in 1657; first published in Spanish in 1605 - 1615 El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. This Dutch edition has the newly made plates by L Scherm after the original plates by Jacobus Savry. It was the variety, the livelines, and the gibes at the famous, which won it instant fame. Its larger claims, the subdued pathos, its universal humanity, where slower to be appreciated. Don Quixote is one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times (Printing and the mind of man 111). All 17th and 18th century editions of the Don Quixote are very rare because they were almost always read to shreds (Muller). - Some stains otherwise a fine copy.
Muller 73; Buisman 364.
€ 1.250
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