A volume of autograph contemporary copies of letters by Andrew Lumisden, antiquary and Secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, for the year 1763. The letter-book, which joins several other Lumisden letter-books already in the National Library, is a valuable source of information on the Jacobite Court in Rome and the cultural world of the Grand Tour.
Item Provenance
The Trotter family, then by descent to Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane); Lyon and Turnbull's sale, Edinburgh, 4 February 2009, lot 377