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CERVANTES. History of the admirable Don Quixote...

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CERVANTES. History of the admirable Don Quixote de la Mancha. Amsterdam and Leipzig, Arkstée and Merkus, 1768, vols. 1 à 6. With vol. 7 and 8: CERVANTES. News. New edition. Same ed. 1768; together 8 vols. in-12: 6 vols. : false title, portrait, title, [8]-370 ; 2bl.-[4]-369-1bl. ; [8]-371-1bl. ; [8]-453-1bl. ; [8]-420 ; [8]-422-[2] p., the 1st one being the engraved title, 32 figures h. t. and 2 vols. : false title, XLIV-358 ; [4]-306 p., 13 figures h. t., for these 2 vols. the false titles bear the tomaison 7 and 8 and the titles 1 and 2. Uniform contemporary binding in brown calf, boards framed with triple gilt fillet, decorated spine-ribs (headpieces worn with occasional small tears, traces of handling, worm work at the bottom of the inner margin of the first 30 pages of the 6th vol.) Rarely complete set in good condition.