Lot 229: QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS, Francisco Gómez de (1580-1645). L'avanturier Buscon, histoire facecieuse -- ensemble Les lettres du chevalier de l'Espargné . Paris: Pierre Billane, 1639. 2 works in one volume, 8° (150 x 90mm). Title device, woodcut

QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS, Francisco Gómez de (1580-1645). L'avanturier Buscon, histoire facecieuse -- ensemble Les lettres du chevalier de l'Espargné. Paris: Pierre Billane, 1639. 2 works in one volume, 8° (150 x 90mm). Title device, woodcut initials. Brown morocco by Brugalla, 1942, gilt supralibros, turn-ins and edges. Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1941. Early edition of Quevedo's brilliant picareque novel in La Geneste's popular translation. Palau XIV, 243934; not in Goldsmith.

QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS, F.G. de. Les visions. Augmentées de L'enfer reformé ... traduictes d'espagnol par le sieur de la Geneste. Paris: Pierre Billaine, 1637. 8° (166 x 101mm). Title device, woodcut initials. (Some stains to L4-5, repair to bottom margin of S8 and quire T with loss of one catch-letter.) Blue morocco gilt by Brugalla, 1952. Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1952, and then rebound. Genest's translation of Los sueños, first published in 1627. Palau XIV, 244101; not in Goldsmith. (2)