25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
66
French Almanac
Almanach Royal, Annee MDCCLXVI ....
Paris, Chez Le Breton, 1766, octavo, 532 pages, monthly tables interleaved with blanks, occasional spot, otherwise a clean book, silk endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco gilt binding with the gilt armorial device of Jean-Jacques Duval, Sei-gneur d'Espremenil, to each board (minor restoration to head and tail of spine).
[Provenance: Jean-Jacques Duval (1745-1794) represented the nobility at the States-General in 1789, as did the later owner, the Duc de La Rochefoucauld whose Chateau de la Roche-Guyon library stamp appears on the title page. A defender of the monarchy, Duval was guillotined in 1794. Sold at Sotheby's Monaco in 1987 and by Maggs Bros. in 2008]
Sold for £600
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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