ORIGINAL EDITION OF FILLEAU DE SAINT-MARTIN'S... Lot 26

ORIGINAL EDITION OF FILLEAU DE SAINT-MARTIN'S TRANSLATION [CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (Miguel de). HISTOIRE DE L'ADMIRABLE DON QUICHOTTE DE LA MANCHE. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1679-1678. Four volumes in four volumes in-12 (6 ff, 518 pp // 1 f, 523 pp (actually 533) and 2 ff // 4 ff, 567 pp // 628 pp and 3 ff. ), full tawny calf, ornate ribbed spine, red edges (contemporary binding). A very good copy, despite a few dull corners and restored headpieces; spines cracked in volume 4. Extremely rare first edition of Filleau de Saint-Martin's translation (volumes 2, 3, 4 dated 1678; the first dated MDCLXXVIX (sic for 1679) is a second edition. This curious date for the first volume is nowhere to be found! Volume V (absent here) of the continuation did not appear until 1695, and is said to be by Robert Challes. It is included with the 1695 edition (cf. BNF copy). Palau, 52703: Este nuevo texto no se sujeta con tanta fidelidad al original, pero resulta màs elegante y ameno. Los tomos primero y secundo se agotaron immediatemente y se reimprimieron con la fecha de 1678 al mismo tiempo que el tercero y cuarto... el éxito constante de esta edicion viene demostrado en las continuadas reimpresiones de su texto. Rius, 470: si rara esta primera edicion de la traduccion de Sant-Martin! Henrich, 246. Finally, it should be noted that, due to the success of this text and its notoriety from the seventeenth century onwards, this edition remained anonymous!