25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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Musculus (Wolfgang)
Common Places of Christian Religion, gathered by Wolfgangus Musculus, for the use of suche as desire the knowledge of Godly truthe. translated out of Latine into Englishe. Hereunto are added two other treatises, made by the same author ....
Reginalde Wolfe, 1563, folio in eights, lacking gathers 3B (8 leaves) and 3E to 3O (80 leaves) and all after 2a8 of final table (22 leaves), several folios mis-numbered, closed tear to fo.253, fo. 368 bound creased, some staining in places, contemporary calf (re-backed, lacking clasps, boards wormed). ESTC S115472;
Malorat (Augustin), A Catholike and Ecclesiasticall exposition of the holy Gospell after S. Mathewe, gathered out of all the singuler and approved deuines (whiche the Lorde hath geuen to his Churche) by Augustine Marlorate. And translated out of Latine into Englishe by Thomas Tymme, mynister.
Thomas Marshe, 1570, folio in sixes, lacking two preliminary leaves, and final leaf of index, worming present, staining to latter leaves, inscription dated 1590 to title page, with lengthy inscription verso, early calf boards (wormed, re-backed). ESTC S114262 (2)
Sold for £900
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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