Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. cxiii. Italian Journal; circa 1680s? Italian. Written in two hands, the first containing draft dispatches written from European cities, and including a description of Charles II of England; the second, in an eighteenth-century hand, giving an account of relations be...
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. cxiv. Commonplace book; late 17th cent.? Partly French. (247/4). 320 x 205mm. 1. f.1v. Notes on architecture. 2. ff.2-4. Notes taken from Machiavelli’s ‘Life of Castruccio’ (with notes in French on English monarchy) and ‘The Prince’. 3. ff.5-15. Blank. 4. f.16....
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. cxii. Map of eastern France; circa 1814. Scale: 1:250,000 (40,000 toises to 55 mm.). Delineates territories occupied by the anti-French coalition. Label of Ch. Picquet, géographe ordinaire du Roi et de S.A.R. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans. 1820 x 1740mm. Charles P...
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vols. cx-cxi. Two hunting journals in the hand of Peniston Lamb (?), son of Viscount Melbourne; 1796-1801. 83073 is entitled ‘Horses’ and contains the names, ages and parentage of horses on f.1 but from f.2 continues with hunting from 1799. (241/5-6). 150 x 100mm.
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Peniston Lamb, son of Peniston, 1st Viscount Lamb: Hunting journals of Peniston Lamb: 1796-1801.