FIRST PRINTING OF THE FOLKEMA PLATES CERVANTES.... Lot 6

FIRST PRINTING OF THE FOLKEMA PLATES CERVANTES. VIDA Y HECHOS DEL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. En Haia, P. Gosse y A. Moetjens, 1744. Four volumes in four volumes in-12 (vii-175, xvi-2 ff, 224 pp, port. rait, 3 plates h. -t. // 4 ff, 406 pp, 3 plates h. -t. // 4 ff, 414 pp, 9 plates h. // 4 ff, 407 pp, 10 plates h. -t. ), full lemon morocco, ribbed spine finely decorated in rocaille style, triple fillet on covers, inner laces (Probably French period binding). A fine copy. First printing of the twenty-five engravings by Folkema, Fokke, Tanje after Coypel's drawings; the portrait (not reported by Rius, 39) is remounted. Cohen, 215-216. Palau, 52012: "Edicion buena" arreglada según la edición de Londres (1738). "Linda Edicion" Eighteenth-century signature-ex-libris on white leaf "Haguenin".