25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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Wirsung (Christof)
Praxis Medicinæ Universalis; Or A generall Practise of Physicke: Wherein are conteined all inward and outward parts of the body, with all the accidents and infirmities that are incident unto them, even from the crowne of the head to the sole of the foote ....
Georg. Bishop., 1598, folio in eights, [20], 790, [122] pages, ESTC gives [126] pages at the end but text and register continuous in this copy with no sign of loss (ending on 3L8), the preliminaries (10 leaves) and H4-5 replaced by good facsimiles, corner of A1 repaired with loss of text, hole in 2R8 with slight loss of text, repaired tear to E2, marginal repairs without loss, edges trimmed with loss of margin notes in places, marginal annotation in early hand, tanning and staining, particularly outer edges of margins, some creasing, scribble on final blank page. Modern full calf binding. ESTC S105368.
Sold for £750
Estimated at £400 - £600
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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