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.
Printed for H. Cripps ... to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Allie and by E: Wallis at the Horsshoo in the Old Baley, 1660, seventh edition, folio in sixes, engraved title page, pagination collates as ESTC. Repairs to gutter-edge and lower edge of half title and gutter edge, fore-edge and lower corners of title page (with a little loss), discrete library blind-stamp to half title and title page, occasional spotting and annotation, small hole in 2G6, lower corner of 2X4 torn (not affecting text), fore-edge of 3L3 torn with loss to edge of margin note, modern panelled calf with older label. ESTC R27243
Sold for £380
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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