25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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Trials
Select Trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, for Murder, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, Bigamy, and other Offences .....
Printed by John Applebee for George Strahan ... Sam Birt, et al, 1742, four duodecimo volumes, engraved frontis to each volume, [12], 372; [12], 372; [12], 357, 349-362; [12], 372 pages, title pages are cancels, age tanning throughout, some foxing, heavy on endpapers, re-backed calf. ESTC N21752;
Trials, The History of the most Remarkable Tryals in Great Britain and Ireland in Capital Cases; viz. Heresy, Treason, Felony, Incest, Poisoning, Adultery, Rapes, Sodomy, Witchcraft, Pyracy, Murder, Robbery, &c....
Printed for J. Pemberton, 1725, second edition, two octavo volumes, [12], 452, [4]; [10], 536 pages, armorial bookplate of the Maquess of Headfort, contemporary calf. ESTC N1751;
Execution, The Dying Speeches and Behaviour of the Several State Prisoners that have been Executed the last 300 Years .....
Printed for J. Brotherton and W. Meadows, F. Clay et al., 1720, octavo, [20], 482, 483*-486*, 483-495, [1] pages, age tanning, name to title page, some creasing to final leaves, bookplates, contemporary half calf (worn, restoration to spine and corners). ESTC T11590;
With one other. (8)
Sold for £700
Estimated at £300 - £500
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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