25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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Heraldry
Guillim (John), A Display of Heraldry: Manifesting A more easie access to the Knowledge thereof than hath been hitherto published by any, through the benefit of Method; Whereunto it is now reduced by the study and industry of John Guillim .... To which is added A Treatise of Honour Military and Civil, According to the Laws and Customs of England, collected .... by Capt. John Logan....
Printed by S. Rycroft for R. Blome; sold by Francis Tyton, Henry Brome et al., 1679, folio in fours, [12], 317, [9], 159, [3], 161-181, [9] pages, 75 leaves of plates, some double sided, separate title pages and new pagination for Analogia Honorum ..., 1677 and The Second Part of Honour Civil ... 1678, modern calf. Collation differs from ESTC by one leaf at the transition to Analogia Honorum, but register appears correct in this copy (a plate is present at the location but has not been counted as a leaf). Head of a3 torn with loss of title verso, pencil annotation, predominantly lines in margins, stain to 2G4. ESTC R12114
With one other.
Sold for £320
Estimated at £100 - £200
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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