25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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Marbeck (John)
A Booke of Notes and Common places, with their expositions, collected and gathered out of the workes of divers singular Writers, and brought Alphabetically in order....
Thomas East, 1581, small quarto in eights, [6], 688, 699-1194, [36] pages, table bound at rear, lacking first 'blank' leaf, title page crudely re-mounted, fore-edge cropped into decorative border and top edge repaired, B2 torn at top corner with slight loss of text, some staining, marginal annotation to 2M7r, single worm hole within text from 3G2, second hole from 4B3, third from 4B6, fourth from 4D1, modern bookplate, rebacked full calf with wear to corners. ESTC S112020.
Sold for £650
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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