25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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[Defoe (Daniel), controversially attributed]
Roberts (George), The Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts; Being a Series of Uncommon Events, Which befell him In a Voyage to the Islands of the Canaries, Cape de Verde, and Barbadoes, from whence he was bound to the coast of Guiney....
A Bettesworth and J. Osborn, 1726, [6], 458, [2] pages, folding map, four engraved plates, unusual loss of part of image from surface of two plates, light foxing, contemporary calf gilt (neat restoration to spine). ESTC T56902; Moore 483; Furbank and Owens 483;
Mandeville (Sir John), The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. Which treateth of the Way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, With other Ilands and Countryes,
Woodman and Lyon and C. Davis, 1727, octavo, [2], xvi, 384, [6] pages, lacks a3 from Index at rear, two title pages dated 1725 and 1727, foxing and staining, some corner creases, half leather. ESTC T100821;
With an imperfect copy of Struys' Voyages (1683), frontis and folding map present but lacking the nineteen plates [not collated]. (3)
Sold for £500
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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