25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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[Ruscelli (Girolamo)]
The Secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont. Containing excellent remedies against divers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltinges..... Translated ... into Englyshe by William Warde.
Printed at London by Roulond Hall for Nycolas England, 1562, small quarto in eights, [6], 122, [10] leaves, title page supplied in facsimile, *2 dust marked and repaired at top corner, fos. 35-38 bound out of sequence, some staining, annotation to margins and blank areas, small hole in fo. 102. ESTC S121372. [bound with]
idem, The seconde part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont, by hym collected out of divers excellent authours .....
Imprinted .. by Jhon Kyngston for Nicholas Englande, 1560, small quarto, [4], 161, [15] pages, marginal annotation throughout. ESTC S119149. [bound with]
idem, The thyrde and last parte of the Secretes of the reverende Maister Alexis of Piemont ...
Printed ... by Roulande Hall for Nycholas Englande, 1562, small quarto, [1], 1, 3-79, [9] leaves, text and register continuous despite foliation, marginal annotation throughout, staining, hole in Y1, repaired margins to Y2 and Y3, final leaf Y4 supplied in facsimile. ESTC S115379. Modern full leather binding.
Sold for £1,200
Estimated at £500 - £800
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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