The Trumbull Papers

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The Trumbull Papers. Sotheby's, auction catalogue, sale date : 14 December, 19894 to, 157 pp : many plates including some in colour. 63 lots. Green cloth binding with gilt lettered front board & spine.As new.The archives of the related Trumbull and Weckherlin families, spanning 1540-1770, which had descended to the Marquess of Downshire.The collection was sold by private treaty. "Spanning a period of more than two centuries of British, European and Colonial history from the 1540s to the 1770s, with a special concentration on the whole of the seventeenth century, the papers include most notably the diplomatic and official papers of William Trumbull (c. 1580-1635), British Resident at Brussels, his daughter's father-in-law, Georg Rudolph Weckherlin (1584-1653), Charles I's secretary and afterwards Secretary to Parliament for the Foreign Tongues, and William Trumbull's grandson Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), Ambassador to Paris and Con.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Trumbull Papers
• Publisher: Sotheby's
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good