25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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Lilburn (John)
The Legal Fundamentall Liberties of the People of England, Revived, Asserted and Vindicated ....
London, 'Printed in the grand yeer of hypocriticall and abominable dissimulation', 1649, first edition, quarto, [4], 75, [1], pages some mispagination but text continuous, age tanning and some staining, (the first edition not found in ESTC, the second edition was supplied with a portrait [see also Thomason E560(14)]). [bound with]
Prynne (William), A true and perfect Narrative of What was done, spoken by and between Mr Prynne, the old and newly Forcibly late secluded Members, the Army Officers, and those sitting ...
1659, quarto, [2], 94, 85-99, [1] pages, frayed and soiled title mounted at gutter, C3 fore-edge cropped into edge of side notes, some staining, repair to final leaf, [ESTC R937], full calf binding.
Sold for £4,000
Estimated at £500 - £800
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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