25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
148
Parliamentary Papers, etc.
Pulteney (William), A Report from the Committee Appointed by Order of the House of Commons to examine Christopher Layer, and Others; ...., relating to the Conspiracy mentioned in His Majesty’s Speech, ..... Reported on the First of March, 1722, by the Right Honourable William Pulteney, Chairman .....
Jacob Tonson, Bernard Lintot and William Taylor, 1722, folio, [4], 76, [4], 31, [1], 10, 16, 13-28, 25-64, [2], 2, 44, 31, [5], 58, 20, 10, 20, 15, [3], 2 pages, annotated in early hand, ESTC T122580. [bound with]
The Declaration of William Earl Cowper, Shewing that The Matters contained in some Hear-Says, relating to him in the Examinations of Christopher Layer are False and Groundless,
1723, folio, 4 pages, imprimatur leaf not present. ESTC T63847; [bound with]
a quantity of others including House of Lords Speeches, Protests of the Lords, Periodicals, A Bill, etc. 1723-1731, recent full morocco binding;
Parliament, The Priviledges and Practice of Parliaments in England. Collected out of the Common Lawes of this Land ...
[London], 1641, small quarto, [4], 46 pages, small hole in E4, tanning and dust marking, some holes in margins (not affecting text), modern quarter calf. ESTC R31133;
With twelve others, seventeeth and eighteenth century pamphlets, periodicals, etc. (14)
Sold for £600
Estimated at £200 - £400
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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