25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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Holy Bible
[The Great Bible] The Byble in Englishe, that is, the olde and new Testament, after the translation appoynted to bee read in the Churches.
Imprynted at London in Fletestrete, at the Signe of the Sunne, over agaynst the conduyte, by Edwarde Whitchurche. 29th December, 1549, folio in eights, facsimile replacement of title page, three preliminary leaves (**, *** and ***6), and five leaves from Revelations (O6-O10), facsimile replacement to part of ***5, several early and later leaves worn with loss of text at edges/corners, staining/tanning, edges shaved with some loss to running title in places, recently bound in full 'antique' calf. ESTC S107004, Herbert 76.
Sold for £8,500
Estimated at £4,000 - £5,000
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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