£120
De Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel) & Pellicer (Don Juan Antonio, editor), El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, volumes I & II only, first edition thus of this important annotated edition, Madrid: D. Gabriel de Sancha, 1797, volume I with portrait frontispiece engraved by Pierre Duflos (1742-1816) after Rafael Ximeno y Planes (1759-1825), later 19th century red half-calf over green papered boards, spines lettered in gilt, red-speckled edges, 8vo, (2); English Imprint, Jarvis (Charles, translator), volume I only, London: Lewis for Oddy, 1809, illustrated copy, disbound contemporary calf, 8vo, (1), [3]
Provenance: 1st: a 19th century member of the Finch family, thus a comital member of the Earl of Winchilsea's family; their Plain Armorial bookplates to the pastedown of the Madrid imprint only.
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