25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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Barckley (Sir Richard)
The Felicitie of Man, or his Summum Bonum.
Printed by R.Y. for Rich. Roystone, 1631, small quarto, [18], 368, 367-526, 607-717, [17] pages including engraved title, 2D1 a cancel with cropped margins and marginal tear, general age tanning and occasional dust marking, small hole in O5, minor marginal tears, worm track in lower margin corner from 2F3 to 2O5, the blank recto of the cropped first leaf is inscribed 'Wortham [or Wenham] in Suffolk, Ben: Garfield, his book ...'. Bookplate of Lawrence Strangman together with early woodcut of a funeral to front pastedown, re-backed full calf. ESTC S100783
Sold for £350
Estimated at £200 - £300
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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