25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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Thou (Jacques-Auguste de.)
The History of the Bloody Massacres of the Protestants in France in the Year of our Lord, 1572. written in Latin by the famous historian Ja. Aug. Thuanus ...
Printed for John Leigh, 1674, small quarto, [6], 66 pages, tanning and some staining, several corrections and a side-note in ink. ESTC R10093, [bound with];
idem, A True Narration of that Horrible Conspiracy against King James and the whole Parliament of England, Commonly called the Gun-Powder Treason; written in Latine by Jacobus Augustus Thuanus ....
Printed for John Leigh, 1674, small quarto, [2], 24 pages, light age tanning. ESTC R4910. [bound with]
Stephens [Edward], A Discourse concerning the Original of the Powder-Plot: Together with a Relation of the Conspiracies against Queen Elizabeth and the Persecutions of the Protestants in France to the death of Henry the Fourth....
Printed for John Leigh, 1674, small quarto, [8], 40, 43-196 pages, text and register continuous despite pagination, lower half of final leaf (2B1) replaced by manuscript, small hole in N3 and R1, tanning and staining, particularly to margins, modern calf binding. ESTC R19505
Sold for £280
Estimated at £150 - £250
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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