25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
192
Trials
Jones (George Henry), Account of the Murder of the Late Mr William Weare, or Lyon's Inn, London ...
Printed by J. Nichols .. for Sherwood, Jones ..., 1824, [4], 344 pages, six plates as called for (including two folding plans), foxing to endpapers and early and latter leaves, pencil marks to two pages, bookplate, rubbed half morocco;
Trial, The Trial of Katherine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie For the Crimes of Incest and Murder ...
Edinburgh: Printed by Auld and Smellie, sold by John Balfour, 1765, octavo in fours, 200 pages, text area of title page excised and laid down, small hole in H1 and T3, tear to N2, top margin of 2B2 cropped, lacking final advert leaf, some staining, modern half leather with earlier marbled boards;
with eight other volumes, (nineteenth century murder trials). (10)
Sold for £650
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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