25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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The Doome warning all men to the Judgemente: Wherein are contayned for the most parte all the strange Prodigies hapned in the World ....
Imprinted by Ralphe Nubery, assigned by Henry Bynneman, 1581, small quarto in eights, [18], 132, 135-434, 436-439, [2], 437 pages, text continuous despite pagination, numerous woodcuts, lacking preliminary (probably par8), title page, 2B7, 2B8, 2D7 and 2D8 supplied in facsimile, repair to par 2, D4 and Z7 affecting text, head margin cropped throughout with loss of headlines, page numbers and titles in places and loss of some text within preliminaries as well as side-notes towards end of book, worm track in fore-edge margin of early part of book, hole through page number of N8, leaves O4 and O5 reversed and Z4 and Z5 reversed, corner of 2A8 and 2D2 replaced by facsimile, some pages washed, repairs to closed tears, occasional staining, a few pages possibly lined. Modern panelled calf. A book restored at considerable expense by David Stather. ESTC S101062
Sold for £550
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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Tuesday 24th January 10am-5pm and the morning of the sale from 8am
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