25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST

The David Stather Library

 
  Lot 161
 

161

Quakers
Bishop (George), New-England Judged, By the Spirit of the Lord. In Two Parts, First, Containing a Brief Relation of the Sufferings of the People call'd Quakers in New England, from the Time of their first Arrival there in the Year 1656, to the Year 1660 ..... Second part, Being a farther Relation of the Cruel and Bloody Sufferings ...... Continued from anno 1660 to anno 1665 ..... With An Appendix ... Also, An Answer to Cotton Mather's Abuses of the said People ....
Printed and sold by T. Sowle, 1703, octavo, [8], 113, 112-141, 152-498, 212, [14] pages including advert leaf, ESTC calls for ten preliminaries, all other copies found in commerce have 8. Several separate title pages within pagination. Some staining at the beginning and latter part of the book, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary calf. [ESTC 103606];
Anon., A Narrative Of the Cruelties & Abuses Acted by Isaac Dennis Keeper, His Wife and Servants, In the Prison of Newgate, in the City of Bristol: Upon the People of the Lord in Scorn called Quakers .....
'Published by the Sufferers themselves', 168[3], small quarto, 27, [1] pages, lower edge of title cropped without loss, A4 cropped with loss of one catchword and partial loss of page number, age tanning/foxing, half calf, ESTC R11635;
Besse (Joseph), A Collection of the Sufferings of the People called Quakers, for the Testimony of Good Conscience ....,
Luke Hinde, 1753, two folio volumes, wear and dampstaining to later pages of both volumes, recent full calf bindings, sold not collated.
with one other (5)

Sold for £450
Estimated at £200 - £400


 

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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