A “once-in-a-lifetime” copy of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, printed in Madrid four centuries ago and snapped up by a book-loving Bolivian diplomat in London in the 1930s, has sold at auction in Paris for €504,000 (£432,600).
A first edition of Cervantes’ short story collection, Novelas ejemplares (Exemplary Stories), bought at the same time by the same diplomat, fetched €403,200 at the sale at Sotheby’s.
