25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST

The David Stather Library

 
  Lot 160
 

160

[Prynne (William)]
The Treachery and Disloyalty of Papists to Their Soveraignes in Doctrine and Practise together with An exact Parallel of the Jurisdiction, Power and Priviledges claimed and exercised by our Popish Parliaments, Prelates, Lords and Commons ....
Michael Sparke, Senior, 1643, quarto, [2], 42 pages, worm track in text from A1 to C2, ESTC R203188 [bound with]
idem, The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments & Kingdomes or Second Part of the Treachery and Disloyalty of Papists ....
Michael Sparke, Senior, 1643, quarto, [4], 38 pages, 39-40 leaves, 41-56 pages, 57-60 leaves, 57-79, [1] pages, lower edge of preliminary cropped close, ESTC R32260. [bound with]
idem, The Third Part of the Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes ...
Michael Sparke, Senior, 1643, quarto, [8], 144, 143-150 pages, small hole in E3. ESTC R203191 [bound with]
idem, The Fourth Part of the Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes ...
Michael Sparke Senior, 1643, quarto, [4], 36, 112, 121-218, [2] pages. ESTC R203192 (setting 1) [bound with]
Anon. The Popes Nuntioes or The Negotiation of Seignior Panzani, Seignior Con &c. Resident here in England with the Queen, and treating about the Alteration of Religion ....
Printed for R.B., 1643, small quarto, [4], 16 pages. ESTC R13462 [bound with]
[Prynne (William)], Romes Master-Peece. or, The Grand Conspiracy of the Pope and his Jesuited Instruments ....
Michael Sparke Senior, quarto, [2], 36, [2] pages (36 numbered 12), full calf binding (re-backed and re-cornered in lighter coloured calf (back extending over boards);
With five others by Prynne; comprising; A New Discovery of the Prelates Tyranny (1641); A Plea for the Lords, and House of Peers (1675); The Antipathie of the English Lordly Prelacie (1641); A Full Vindication and Answer of the XI Accused Members (1647); Brief ... The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England (1669) [These five sold not collated]. (6)

Sold for £850
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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