25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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[Whitelocke (Sir Bulstrode)] or [Fiennes (Nathaniel)]
Monarchy Asserted, To be the best, most Ancient and legall form of Government, in a conference had at Whitehall, with Oliver late Lord Protector & a Committee of Parliament ....
Printed by John Redmayne for Philip Chetwind, 1660, first edition (Chetwind var.), small octavo, [8], 112 pages (first leaf a blank), narrow margins, particularly gutter margin, foxing to prelims., modern antique style sprinkled calf. ESTC R222574;
Howell (James), Proedria Basilike: A Discourse Concerning the Precedency of Kings: Wherin the Reasons and Arguments of the Three Greatest Monarks of Christendom .....
Printed by Ja. Cottrel for Sam Speed and Chr. Eccleston, 1664, folio, [14], 219, [1] pages, three portrait plates of Monarchy and fourth plate of the author (with small hole), one plate believed to be part of the preliminary collation as ESTC gives [16] pages and calls for three plates ex pagination but names four portraits, repaired tear and name to title, some soiling and wear, closed tear to head of 3D2 and 3J1, smudged annotation to margin of M2 and 2A1, gutter gaping at end of book with loosening and gutter tearing of 3L1-2, bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron, heavily restored worn calf. ESTC R21017. (2)
Sold for £380
Estimated at £150 - £250
Auction: The David Stather Library, 25th Jan, 2023
A single-owner sale of the Library of David Stather (1940-2022)
The library comprises a large collection of early books, pamphlets and manuscripts on English history, focusing on the English Civil War, the ‘Popish Plot’, the Monmouth Rebellion and the Glorious Revolution, early Parliament and the Monarchy of that period, the development of English law, the Reformation, early bibles and prayer books, chronicles of English history and some very early books on witchcraft.
The earliest manuscript dates from 1285, and the earliest book is an incunable from 1486, however the majority date from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Interestingly, many are books that contribute to English history rather than just reporting on it, for example the collection includes books reporting the Popish Plot, which were written specifically to create social division through what is now known as ‘fake news’.
The books have been lovingly preserved by David Stather and the auction provides a rare opportunity to purchase books from a very focused collection built up over his lifetime.
Please submit any enquiries for the sale to books@tennants-ltd.co.uk
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