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Pyne, J.C. - Note and Sketch book, ca. 1878, Oblong 8o, contemporary calf, Pyne was an officer in...

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Pyne, J.C. - Note and Sketch book, ca. 1878, Oblong 8o, contemporary calf, Pyne was an officer in...
Pyne, J.C. - Note and Sketch book, ca. 1878, Oblong 8o, contemporary calf, Pyne was an officer in the 54th Regiment and this work chronicles the regiment's trip over to India on H.M.S. Jumna and Pyne's subsequent observations of the Indian sub-continent, many of the sketches watercolour or pencil and ink, a series of mathematical notes at the rear as well as various descriptive notes interspersed throughout. Pyne, H.B. & J.C. - Old Sketches copied by J.C Pyne for H.B.P., Aden, Bound at the jail, May 1886, 4o, sketches of Parisian life and also a series of sketches on life and customs of late 1880s Brazil, including a pencil sketch of ships off Rio Janeiro harbour, two loose letters, one from H. Pyne to his mother dated Sunday 22nd December 1878 from an army depot in the India sub-continent and the second from J.C Pyne to his brother H.B. Pyne from Paris dated April 17th 1885, both letters with coloured illustrations. (see illustration) £80-120