17th Sep, 2024 10:00
The September Auctions 2024
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Witches: Hale (Sir Matthew) Pleas of the Crown
[Witches] Hale (Sir Matthew) Pleas of the Crown [5 parts in 1] Printed by J. N. Assignee of Edw. Sayer for D. Brown et al., 1716, 8vo, full calf with red morocco title label
Provenance:Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
Footnote:Each part has a separate title-page; 1 Pleas of the Crown, 2 A Short Treatise touching Sheriffs Accompts, 3 A Tryal of Witches at the Assizes held at Bury St Edmunds ... March, 1664, 4 A Discourse touching Provision for the Poor, 5 Pleas of the Crown The Second Part
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Sold for £1,400
[Witches] Hale (Sir Matthew) Pleas of the Crown [5 parts in 1] Printed by J. N. Assignee of Edw. Sayer for D. Brown et al., 1716, 8vo, full calf with red morocco title label
Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
Each part has a separate title-page; 1 Pleas of the Crown, 2 A Short Treatise touching Sheriffs Accompts, 3 A Tryal of Witches at the Assizes held at Bury St Edmunds ... March, 1664, 4 A Discourse touching Provision for the Poor, 5 Pleas of the Crown The Second Part
THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Pleas of the Crown: full calf binding in good state, no book plates, text block clean, some age toning to a few foredge margins, endpapers etc.; [22] + 272pp +8pptables, 3 x title pages all 1716, varying content (see footnote). Continuous pagination 1-143 for 'A treatise touching Sherrifs Accompts, London 1716, 69pp + [1], A Tryal of Witches, London, 1716 & A Discourse touching Provision ..., London 1716; Please for the Crown The Second Part, Giles Jacob, London 1716, [1] + 121pp
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