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Punjab District Gazetteers. Montgomery District Part A.
1935215892Lahore.: Government Printing. Revised Edition. 1935. Four folding colour maps xi 311 pages 26.5 x 18 cms; original papered boards spotted and a trifle scuffed linen backstrip with paper title label worn; foredges and endpapers spotted a few leaves toned but on the whole in very good condition the maps particularly bright and clean. A remarkable association copy: the author Frederick Blyth Wace's copy with his inked initials to the front free endpaper and his humorous unpublished foreword tipped in opposite the preface together with a dedication leaf both in Wace's hand and his business card loose within. As a further dedication makes clear this copy was given by Wace's son a couple of his loose notes on scrap paper are included the eminent botanist Nigel Morritt Wace 1929-2005 late head of the Australian National University's department of Biogeography and Geomorphology in 2003 to his fellow academic and marsupial biologist Dr. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe. Both Wace and Biscoe were born in India and began their schooling in Kashmir at the school founded by Tyndale-Biscoe's father a Christian missionary and for whom the school is named. <br> <br>From the collection of Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe. . Government Printing. hardcover
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