25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST

The David Stather Library

 
  Lot 211
 

211

Witchcraft
Glanvill (Joseph), Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions. In two parts. The First treating of their Possibility; the Second of their Real Existence. By Joseph Glanvil .... With two Authentick, but wonderful Stories of certain Swedish Witches; done into English by A. Horneck, D.D.
Printed for S.L. ... sold by Anth. Baskervile, 1689, third edition, 597, [1] pages, text illustrations with full page illustration within pagination, may lack a plate or frontis, (see ESTC and description of third edition issued by others), ink splashes on four pages, tear to lower margin of 2H1 (not affecting text), small hole in 2L8, full calf, recently re-backed, modern endpapers. ESTC R234101
Aubrey (John), Miscellanies upon the Following Subjects, I. Day-Fatality, II. Local-Fatality, III. Ostenta. IV. Omens, V. Dreams, VI. Apparitions ........ XXII. The Discovery of Two Murders by an Apparition.
A. Bettesworth et al., 1721, second edition with large additions, [2], x, [4], 236 pages plus engraved frontis (located at end of preliminaries in other copies), preliminary gather (A) detached from binding, age tanning and staining, some marginal tears, one word corrected, bookplate, half calf. ESTC T89806
Law (Rev. Robert), Memorialls; or, The Memorable Things that fell out Within this Island of Brittain from 1628 to 1684. Edited from the MS by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
Edinburgh: Archibal Constable, 1818, quarto, frontis, (iii) - cxiv, 277, [1] pages, bookplate of Aberdeen Soc. of Advocates with their stamp to title verso, offsetting from frontis to title, staining to edges of endpapers (from binding), half calf;
Anon., From Authentic Documents. A History of the Witches of Renfrewshire, who were burned at the Gallowgreen of Paisley.
Paisley, John Millar, 1809, duodecimo in sixes, 200 pages, armorial bookplate, re-backed sheep binding;
with one other. (5)

Sold for £1,200
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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