[Don Quixote] A.F. de Avellaneda. Nieuwe avantuuren Van den Vroomen en Wijzen Don Quichot

de la Mancha. Oorspronkelijk in de Spaansche taal beschreven door Alonso Fern. de Avellaneda, en nu om der zelver geestigheid voor de eerste maal in 't Neederduits gebracht. Verçiert met kopere platen. Den tweeden druk. Amst., A. van Damme/ J. Ratelband, 1718, (16),316; (4blank)(2),323-687p., engr. frontisp. and 15 (of 16) plates, contemp. vellum w. later paper letterpiece on spine/ covers, sm. 8vo.

Lacks 1 plate; occas. foxed/ sl. browned; upper endpapers waterst. and w. old (crossed-out) owner's entries. A few quires loosening and sl. protruding from bookblock at fore-edge; bookblock loose from head- and tailband; vellum soiled. Very rare 2nd edition, apparently no copies in NCC, listing a title-edition of this 2nd edition published by H.W. van Welbergen in Deventer, 1725 (re-using the frontisp. of our 1718 edition, cf. Sale Cat. Coll. Buisman 836). The first Dutch edition appeared in 1706. Alonso F. de Avellaneda is a pseudonym of F.L. Aliagra, who in 1614 published this pseudo-cervantes, a continuation of the first part of the Don Quichot by Cervantes, one year before the latter published his second part. Waller, 184; Buisman, 73; Muller, 79; Scheepers II, 731 & 731A.