Lot 983
983
MARTORELL, J. Histoire du Vaillant chevalier Tiran le blanc, trad. de l'espagnol (p. Comte de Caylus). Lond., "Aux dépens de la Compagnie", 1775. 3 vols. 366; 272, 268 pp. 12°. Beautiful 19th c. mottled cf., bound by Belz-Niedrée, w. raised bands, dec. gilt backs, sides ruled in gilt and with crowned monograms in each compartment and in all corners, red labels & a.e.g. (A few small pieces of calf lacking, outer margin 1 leaf rep., but else a fine and charming set).
From the library of Chateau de Mouchy and with its bookplate on pastedowns. - Famous Catalan novel on chivalry, composed in the middle of the 16th century by the knight Joanot Martorell of Valencia and completed by Martí Johan de Galba. Cervantes made Don Quixote say about this book that is was the most important book in the world, so he saved it from the fate of his other books on knights that were all burnt.€ 140
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