AN UNKNOWN ALMANAC IN HONOR OF DON QUIXOTE - Lot 37

AN UNKNOWN ALMANAC IN HONOR OF DON QUIXOTE [CERVANTES]. LES AVENTURES DE DON QUICHOTTE adorned with fine engravings. Paris, Marcilly / Caillot, [1804-1805]. Small pamphlet in-16 (5 ff, 20 pp, 24 pp, 45-62 pp, 4 ff) dominoté paper. Copy a little handled. Placed in a richly decorated slipcase with a central lozenge and gilt and polychrome spandrels with various decorative irons. (English registered binding Jan. 13. 1815 N°346. rubbed and a little soiled). A very rare little almanac that we have not found mentioned anywhere, neither in French libraries nor in specialized bibliographies. It is illustrated with a title-frontispiece and twelve previously unpublished engraved figures depicting the novel's best-known episodes. This almanac was probably published in 1805 to celebrate the three-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Don Quixote.