FIRST BELGIAN EDITION PUBLISHED TWO YEARS AFTER THE 1605 ORI - Lot 1

FIRST BELGIAN EDITION PUBLISHED TWO YEARS AFTER THE 1605 ORIGINAL. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (Miguel de). EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA... Dirigido al Duque de Bejar. Brusselas, Roger Velpius, 1607. One volume in-8 (12 ff, 592 pp, 8 pp), full contemporary basane rubbed and worn, corners dulled, spines split. White part of title leaf cut out to remove bookplate. Some light dampening and lightly browned quires. Precious Belgian edition, the first in Brussels, in which thirteen leaves are unfortunately missing: 3 ff in the prologue; e f. X2; ff Z4 and Z5; ff Gg2 to Gg7 and f. Nn8. Palau, 51981 : e imprimio teniendo à la vista la segunda tirada de La Cuesta, y el texto esta corregido con cuidado. Se suele juntar a la segunda parte de Brusselas 1616. Rius, 7; Henrich, 7. Bookplate on title: Stephani Lecarlier, abbatiae Regali Brimolariensi (?) vulgo de Chomblieres, 1731.