Description: , En door den Zelfden met Gedichten ter Verklaaring van iedere Kunstprint, en het Leeven van M. De Cervantes Saavedra verrykt [..]. [Dutch adaptation by J.C. Weyerman]. In ’s Hage, By Pieter de Hondt, 1746, [2],XXVI,420 pp. With engraved title-vignette, engraved portrait (of J.C. Weyerman) by J. Houbraken after C. Troost & 31 engraved plates by i.a. B. Picart, J. van Schley & P. Tanjé after i.a. F. Boucher, N. Cochin, C. Coypel & J.P. Le Bas. Large 4to (ca. 28 x 22,5 cm.), 19th-cent. gilt(-lettered) half-calf. ? Scheepers I, 383. Cf. Cohen/ De Ricci 216-217 (“Superbes illustrations”). First & only edition of a Dutch adaptation by Jacob Campo Weyerman (1677-1747) of Cervantes’ Don Quixote illustrated with attractive engravings by i.a. the French printmaker Bernard Picart (1673-1733) after designs by i.a. the French artist Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752). – A few small imperfections (engr. portrait cropped to the borderline & mounted onto a paper mount, occ. waterstained in inner blank margin, occ. sl. foxed/ browned), but nevertheless in an acceptable condition (printed with wide margins).