25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST

The David Stather Library

 
  Lot 59
 

59

English Parliament
The Names of the Members of Parliament. Called to take upon them the Trust of the Government of this Common-wealth. Which Began on Munday the Fourth of June, 1653. The day appointed by the Letters of Summons from his Excellency the Lord Gen. Cromwell, for the meeting of these Gentlemen.
Printed by M. Simmons, for Tho. Jenner, 1654, small quarto, [2], 70, pages, nine engraved illustrations (two cropped at tail edge), title page worn at edges with date and price to head (1656), extensive pen trials to pages 14/15, 38/39 and 46, marginal annotation to pages, 34, 35, 37 and 63, head of E1 and E2 cropped with loss of page numbers. ESTC R2275 [bound with]
A Perfect List of the Names of the Persons returned to serve in this Parl. 1656 ...
no imprint, 8 pages, part of larger work, worn edges, modern full sheep binding;
May (Thomas), The History of the Parliament of England: Which began November the third, M.DC.XL. With a short and neccessary view of some precedent yeares.
Imprinted .. by Moses Bell, for George Thomason, 1647, folio in fours, [16], 119, [1], 128, pages. Marginal foxing throughout, encroaching into text on final leaves, stain to lower gutter margin corner, small surface abrasion to text on 2H1, creasing to pages, ink obliteration at head of title, foxing to endpapers, armorial bookplate, worn contemporary calf.
With nine others on the English Parliament, six published in the seventeenth century and three in the eighteenth. (11)

Sold for £1,400
Estimated at £500 - £800


 

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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