25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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[Bligh (William)]
A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of his Majesty, for the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the Mutiny ....
George Nichol, 1792, first edition, quarto, [2], 264 pages, seven (of eight) plates, lacking preliminaries, one chart repaired with significant loss, another chart trimmed to border, portrait laid down, dust marking and staining, title page worn and torn without loss, marginal tears, bookplate (Charles Robinson) and several ownership inscriptions (John William Hudson and Sir Titus Salt) to front endpapers, minor annotation to title page and lower margin of p.208, full calf binding (re-backed retaining backstrip, bumped). ESTC T52638
Sold for £800
Estimated at £150 - £250
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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