25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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York Justice
[Montgomery (James)], Prison Amusements and Other Trifles: Principally written during Nine Months of Confinement in the Castle of York. By Paul Positive.
J. Johnson, 1797, first edition, viii, 200 pages of verse, a couple of page numbers punctured, completion of footnote in ?contemporary ink, a few pencil marks, light age tanning, bookplates of Simon and Judith Nowell-Smith, cloth-backed marbled boards. ESTC T106186;
York Assizes, Reports and Pleas of Assises at Yorke. Held before severall Judges in that Circuit ...
Printed by Ja. Flesher for W. Lee, D. Pakeman and G. Bedell, 1651, small octavo, [24], 158 pages, Law library stamp to title pages, age tanning throughout, a few spots, several marginal tears, modern leather binding;
[Knipe (William)], Criminal Chronology of York Castle; with a Register of the Criminals Capitally Convicted and Executed at the County Assizes ....
York: Burdekin, 1867, viii, 254, [6], 255-260 pages, some fore-edge staining, occasional foxing, edges dust marked, original cloth;
With two others. (5)
Sold for £280
Estimated at £200 - £400
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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