25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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Holy Bible [Geneva]
The Bible Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations .....
Imprinted ... by Robert Barker, 1611, small quarto in eights, [2], 226, 231-435 (434), [4], 441-554, [82] leaves, New Testament with separate title page (1611), includes Herrey's Concordances. Lacking fos. 227-230, top edge cropped with some partial or complete loss of foliation and headlines in places, light worming at beginning of book, light age tanning of leaves, occasional spotting, a few light stains, corner creasing, annotation in early hand to margins of fo. 110-111, lower corner of fos. 211 and 465 torn with loss of text, fos. 220 and 269 fore-edge torn with partial loss of sidenote, small hole in fos. 404 and 541 with a little loss of text. ESTC [S90500, Herbert 308].
Preceded by an incomplete prayer book and followed by;
Sternehold (Thomas) & Hopkins (John), The Whole Booke of Psalmes ...
Printed by A.G. for the Company of Stationers, 1635, [10], 90, 6 pages (lacking final six pages), contemporary calf binding with metal corners and lozenges, later metal clasps;
With two other early seventeenth century Bibles (Norton 1621 & Barker/Bill, 1634), the Norton with the armorial bookplate of Robert Isaac Wilberforce. [the latter two Bibles sold not collated]
Sold for £5,500
Estimated at £300 - £500
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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