Estimate: £200 - £300
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Manuscript, in ink on laid paper 46 ff. + blanks, 19.9 x 15.6cm, contemporary vellum binding, contents mainly comprising alternate tables of the ‘Amount of the weekly expense of each man’s diet' (most signed by James Bannerman MD, surgeon or Patrick Nimmo, assistant surgeon, Alexander Maclean, officer commanding, and Robert Tennant, acting paymaster) and ‘Articles purchased for the weekly subsistence of the Lothian Hospital', several pages additionally countersigned by J. Hamilton as colonel, first leaf with a single ‘Table of Diet’ (signed by James Bannerman as surgeon of ‘Lothian Cavalry') and a few other notes, the manuscript apparently in the hand either of Bannerman or Nimmo, boards sprung and soiled
From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2023), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association.
The Lothian (East and West) Cavalry was a fencible regiment established in 1795 as part of the national effort to meet the threat from Revolutionary France. The War Office's List of the Officers of the Several Regiments and Corps of Fencible Cavalry and Infantry for 1798 (page 18) names John Hamilton as regimental colonel, Alexander McLean as major, James Bannerman (misspelt Bennerman) as lieutenant and surgeon, and Patrick Nimmo as cornet. Nimmo subsequently enjoyed a successful medical career in his native Dundee (see William Norrie, Dundee Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century, 1873, p. 164).