25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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French Royal Dedicatee
Office de la Semaine Sainte, En Latin & en Francois a l'usage de Rome & de Paris ....
Paris: Chez la Veuve Mazieres et Garnier, 1728, octavo, [4], xxxvi, 714, [2] pages, engraved title, three engraved plates, slight loss to fore-edge margin of 2O4, 2Q1 and 2Q3 (not affecting text), occasional spotting, floral gilt endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt-tooled morocco with the gilt armorial device of the dedicatee, Marie-Charlotte-Sophie-Felicite Leczinska, to each board (minor restoration to head and tail of spine).
[Marie-Charlotte-Sophie-Felicite Leczinska (1703-1768), Queen of France, was daughter of King Stanislaw of Poland and wife of Louis XV of France. Sold by Maggs Bros. in 2008]
Sold for £420
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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