25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST

The David Stather Library

 
  Lot 159
 

159

'Popish Plot'
[Oates] Otes (Titus), A True Narrative of the Horrid Plot and Conspiracy of the Popish Party against the Life of His Sacred Majesty, the Government, and the Protestant Religion: with a List of such Noblemen, Gentlemen, and others that were the Conspirators .....
Thomas Parkhurst and Thomas Cockerill, 1679, folio, [12], 68 pages, repair to fore-edge of imprimatur leaf, title tanned and dustmarked, particularly at edges, modern half calf.
ESTC R232689;
A True Narrative of the Proceedings at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayly, which begun on Wednesday the 30th of April 1679. and ended on Fryday the second of Mayfollowing. Being a true relation of the Tryal and Condemnation of a Romish Priest, for High-Treason. With the Tryal of the Maid for setting her Masters House on Fire in Holborn, as also of two Persons for Counterfeiting his Majesties Coin, and two Women for Murdering their Bastard Children. With the number of the persons that received Sentence of Death, Burn’d in the hand, and to be transported, With allowance.
D.M. 1679, 8 pages, ESTC R232188 [bound with];
J. P., A Letter to a A Friend in the Country: Being a Vindication of the Parliaments whole Proceedings this last session. With the State of the Plot, and manner of its Discovery,
[1679], folio, 4 pages,
ESTC R30077 [bound with];
The Tryal of Edward Coleman, Gent. for conspiring the death of the King, ...... found Guilty of High Treason, and received Sentence accordingly, on Thursday November the 28th 1678,
Robert Pawlet, 1678, folio, [4], 80, 89-104 pages, first and last pages dust marked, ESTC R4486;
Bound with three others, in modern panelled calf;
with one other (3)

Sold for £750
Estimated at £100 - £200


 

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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