CERVANTES (Miguel de). HISTOIRE DE L'ADMIRABLE... Lot 29

[CERVANTES (Miguel de)]. HISTOIRE DE L'ADMIRABLE DON QUIXOTTE [sic] DE LA MANCHE. Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1700-1699. Five volumes in five volumes in-12 (6 ff, 408 pp, 11 plates // 418 pp, 3 ff, 5 plates // 4 ff, 400 pp, 8 plates // 4 ff, 456 pp, 8 plates // 4 ff, 501 pp, 3 pp, 8 plates), full tan calf, finely decorated ribbed spines (period binding), headbands worn and corners dulled. Volume V, dated 1699, bears the Elzevir "sphere". A sixth volume appeared in 1715, but is rarely found lacking; indeed, Palau (52712) reports only four volumes. The fifth contains the continuation of Filleau de Saint-Martin; the sixth the end. This edition is illustrated with five frontispieces signed H. Cause (?) and forty unsigned plates. Rius, 478: Imitation de la edicion anterior (1695). Henrich, 253.