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FIRST SPANISH EDITION PRINTED ABROAD CERVANTES...

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FIRST SPANISH EDITION PRINTED ABROAD CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (Miguel de). Vida y Hechos del Ingenioso Hidalgo DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA... Nueva edicion, corregida y illustrada con differentes Estampas muy donsas, y apropiadas a la materia. En Amberes, Juan Bautista Verdussen, 1719. Two parts in two volumes (10 ff, 611 pp, 5 pp // 8 ff, 649 pp, 7 pp uncounted), full tan calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period bindings), bindings restored. The edges of the first volume are wet. First Spanish edition published abroad (since 1708, the Netherlands were no longer under Spanish rule). This edition, copied from the 1697 edition, is illustrated with the same thirty-two plates (plus two frontispieces) by Boutatts. Palau, 52004, lists two addresses: one at Henrico and Cornelio Verdussen Rius, 31 and Henrich, 32, both list Juan Bautista Verdussen. Bibliothèque Mazarine, 22315, D1. Eighteenth-century handwritten bookplate on title page: "Donné par Mme la Marquise de Rochegude ; signé Corias".