25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST

The David Stather Library

 
  Lot 131
 

131

'Martyrs'
Mason (Thomas), Christs Victorie Over Sathans Tyrannie. Wherin is Contained a Catalogue of all Christs Faithfull Souldiers that the Divell either by his grand Captaines the Emperours, or by his most deerly beloved sonnes and heyres the Popes, have most cruelly Martyred for the Truth ....
Printed by George Eld and Ralph Blower, 1615, folio in fours, [10], 418, [14] pages, lacking first blank leaf (A1), later replacement, marginal corner tear to E2, 2K1, small holes in O2, 2A3, horizontal line above headline cropped in a few places, modern full calf binding. ESTC S114403;
Lloyd (Da.), Memoires of the Lives, Actions, Sufferings & Deaths of those .... That Suffered by Death, Sequestration, Decimation or Otherwise, for the Protestant Religion ..... In our late Intestine Wars, From the Year 1637 to the Year 1660 and from thence continued to 1666 .....
Samuel Speed et al., 1668, folio in fours, [14], 502, 501- 708 pages plus engraved frontis. Lacking final advert leaf, frontis and title re-mounted with restored margins, wear to frontis image at gutter side, some early annotation, corrections and underlining, occasional minor staining and marginal tears, heavier staining to final three leaves, tear to 4P3 without loss, contemporary sheep (re-backed). ESTC R3832;
Taylor (Matthew), England's Bloody Tribunal: or, Popish Cruelty Displayed ....
J. Cooke, 1770, quarto in twos, [8], ii, 3-491, [1] pages, folding frontis and twenty-four plates, occasional spot but generally VG, armorial bookplate, contemporary calf gilt. ESTC T154382;
With four others. (7)

Sold for £1,000
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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