25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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[Burton (Robert)]
The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, With all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & severall cures of it. In three Partitions ...., by Democritus Junior.
Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield for Henry Cripps, 1628, third edition, folio in fours, [4], 77, [11], 79, 78-208, [4], 374, [2], 375-584, 583-646, [12] pages, some pages mis-numbered but register and text continuous, title page laid down with worn edges, name to top edge, two preliminary leaves (**2), bound later before A1, pages with various levels of age toning, remnant printed strips from another work attached to hinges which are gaping upper board corner repaired, calf gilt (re-backed, retaining original backstrip), gilt signet device to boards (possibly the Duke of Sussex). ESTC S107137.
Sold for £550
Estimated at £600 - £1,000
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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