CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (Miguel de). LE VOYAGE AU PARNASSE, trans - Lot 69

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (Miguel de). LE VOYAGE AU PARNASSE, translated into French for the first time with a biographical note, a table of authors quoted in the poem and a facsimile of an unpublished autograph by Cervantes by J. M. Guardia. Paris, Jules Gay, 1864. One volume in-8, in dark brown half-maroquin, spine decorated with gilt fillets and scrolls, nerves enhanced with gilt dotted lines and two red scrolls, gilt head, covers preserved (Binding signed Grandghaud). A fine copy. French first edition of this satirical poem directed against Gongora and cultism. Edition of 500 copies, with a signed autograph letter from the translator J. M. Guardia to Mme Evelart-Deleurye. Palau, 53889: buena edicion; Fouché-Delbosc, 1936.