Lot 1002 , Portfolio of letters, prints and documents, 1734-1902, correspondence of George Spragge, Messrs Bainbridge and Brown, Bread Street, London

Portfolio of letters, prints and documents, 1734-1902, correspondence of George Spragge, Messrs Bainbridge and Brown, Bread Street, London, including letters from his brother Francis Roach Spragge concerning the family crest, 1823, his brother John Spragge, recently arrived in New York, 1827, relating to the death of the Revd Harvey Spragge of Welbeck Street, 1796 and of and Francis Roach Spragge, who died at Paris in 1838, receipts of L E Peile for the education of Miss Spragge, 1822-1830, and other papers and accounts of the Spragge family, 1796-1863
engraved portrait of [Paul Simon Jacob] Malvieu, c1780; printed map of the course of the rivers Jumnah, Ganges and Hoogley from west of Allahabad to the sea, engraved by J Cary, [plate 15 from William Hodges (1744-1797), Travels in India, during the years 1780, 1781, 1782 & 1783 (London, 1793]; fourteen steel-engraved plates from pictures by W[illiam] Hodges, RA, (1744-1797) in the collection of Warren Hastings, esquire, published by I Edwards, Pall Mall, 1 January 1793; letter from Samuel Whitbread to Mr Lucas requesting alterations to his curricle, 1799; issue 84 of The Weekly Register, 1799; three letters to Captain George Gray, Royal Marines, HMS Colossus, from his brother Charles Gray, HMS Unité in the Gulf of Venice, with details of naval operations, October 1807 – September 1808; papers of the related Carstairs and McClellan families, including the service record of Captain Thomas McClellan of the 33rd Regiment of Native Infantry, 1836, his will, 1841 and references, 1843; diploma of Robert Inglis of Markinch as a member of the Musomanic Society of Anstruther, 1815; letter to Henry Bone RA (1755–1834) concerning his claim on Lord W, 1828; letter from Emma Roberts (1791-1841) author on India, to the sculptor William Behnes, Dean Street, Soho, c1830; letter from Richard Moore (1810-1878, chartist), inviting the recipient to a public meeting, 1842; letter from Sir Hugh Massy Wheeler (1789–1857), army officer in the East India Company, the day after capturing the fortress of Rangal Naga, 1848; letter from Frederick Charles Husenbeth, (1796–1872), Roman Catholic writer, commenting on the design for his [Emblems of Saints by which they are Distinguished in Works of Art], 1850; letter from James concerning the Clitheroe Commission, 1853; Milnes Gaskell, politician designs on fabric, including John Tenniel’s drawings for Alice in Wonderland, c1870;
£200-300

Condition:
This lot includes just the 14 plates and the map.

Sold for £700