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Don Quixote de la Mancha [in 2 volumes]
by Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel de: Jarvis, Charles [trans.]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Henry G. Bohn. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1842. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Two hardbacks bound in red half leather over marbled paper on boards, gilt titles & decoration at spines, rubbed at edges and corners. Bindings do not quite match, and volume 1 has gilt page edges and 2 has marbling. Volume 1 has the armorial bookplate of Edward Cunard and marbled endpapers, 2 has plain endpapers and no ownership markings. [xii] + 706 & [xviii] + 772 pages respectively, and both volumes have plates and many drawings in the text by Tony Johannot and others. Heavy set, 3kg unpacked, so additional postage may be requested .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65688
- Title
- Don Quixote de la Mancha [in 2 volumes]
- Author
- Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel de: Jarvis, Charles [trans.]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Henry G. Bohn
- Date Published
- 1842
- Keywords
- Sancho Panza, Don Quixote, Edward Cunard, Nevill Holt
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / 19th Century;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Aucott & Thomas
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Ibstock, Leicestershire
About Aucott & Thomas
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- Marbled Paper
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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- G
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- Jacket
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