25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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Boccaccio (Giovanni)
The Novels and Tales of the Renowned John Boccacio, The first Refiner of Italian Prose: containing A Hundred curious Novels. By Seven Honourable Ladies and Three Noble Gentlemen, Framed in Ten Days.
Printed for Awnsham Churchill, at the Black Swan at Amen Corner. 1684, fifth edition, much corrected and amended, folio in fours, portrait frontis, [16], 208, 221-483, [1] pages, irregular pagination but text continuous, title page laid down and restored, tears to H4, K2, N4, O4, R2, Z5 and 2Q4 without loss of text, tear to lower part of L1 with some loss of text, pages age toned with some spotting and marginal worming, top edge of binding a little sun shaded. all edges gilt, modern half calf. ESTC R2136.
A second copy, with trimmed margins and several leaves replaced by facsimiles. (2)
Sold for £320
Estimated at £200 - £300
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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