25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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The Inquisition
Renneville (Constantin de), The French Inquisition: or, the History of the Bastille in Paris, the State-Prison in France: ... Written by Constantin de Renneville ....
A. Bell, T. Varnham and J. Osborn, et al., 1715, [4], 322, [2] pages, endpapers tanned, contents generally clean, contemporary calf gilt (some neat restoration). ESTC N31742 (Osborn variant);
Limborch (Philip a), The History of the Inquisition ..... Translated into English by Samuel Chandler.
J. Gray, 1731, two quarto volumes bound as one, [4], xvi, 260, [4], 319, [1] pages, five engraved plates (four folding with folds reinforced at rear) plus three mounted hand coloured plates depicting costumes of the inquisitors. Marginal tanning/foxing, endpapers tanned and stained, re-backed and rubbed panelled calf with gilt ?Royal armorial device to upper board. ESTC T90184;
[Claude (Jean)], An Account of the Persecutions and Oppressions of the French Protestants To which is added, The Edict of the French King ...,
Printed by G.M., 1686, very small quarto, [2], 54 pages, age tanning and dust marking, modern full leather binding. ESTC R231693;
With four others. (7)
Sold for £900
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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