25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
190
Trials
Gordon (Delahay), A General History of the Lives, Trials, and Executions of all the Royal and Noble Personages, That have suffered in Great-Britain and Ireland for High Treason, or other Crimes .....
Printed for J. Burd, 1760, three octavo volumes, x, 379, 390-518, [2]; 490, [2]; [2], 202, 219-613, [5] pages, twenty-nine portrait plates, volume 3 lacking gathering P. In vol. 2, page number of G3 holed, in vol. 3, annotation to plate with penetration of ink to adjacent leaves, ink stain to page 332 tear to 2K7, contemporary half calf (corners a little bumped, joints starting. ESTC T145446;
Trial, The Proceedings Against Sir John Fenwick, Bar. Upon a Bill of Attainder for High Treason ....
[London], 1698, octavo, [2], 348, [10] pages, some tanning, endpapers well tanned, panelled calf (joints cracking). ESTC R30117;
With eleven others. (15)
Sold for £1,400
Estimated at £300 - £500
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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