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First edition

Tony JOHANNOT L'ingénieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche

Tony JOHANNOT

Miguel de CERVANTES

L'ingénieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche

J.J. Dubochet et Cie, Paris 1836, 17x27,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.


First edition of the French translation by Louis Viardot and first edition of Tony's illustrations which consist of two frontispieces printed on China, two engraved title pages and 800 large in-text vignettes.
The very rare folding map of Don Quixote's travels is absent, as always, from our copy as it has been pulled out and not attached.
The second volume is as of 1837 as rarely.
Bindings in half shagreen green with corners, slightly browned backs to fine nerves set with golden garlands and adorned with quintuple boxes and gilded nets, framing of double golden nets on green cardboard plates that include scratches, a blunt lower corner, signed bindings Good son.
Some foxinges as generally, description of bookseller stickers glued on the contreplats.
"One of the very beautiful illustrated books of the nineteenth" Vicar.

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