KINGDON-WARD, Frank.

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"The Himalaya East of the Tsangpo." Presentation copy of this offprint, inscribed by Kingdon-Ward on the front cover, "With the author's kind regards. 1934." Though unmarked as such, this copy is from the library at Exbury House, home of the de Rothschilds. Lionel de Rothschild financed many of Kingdon-Ward's plant-collecting expeditions, including his 1927-8 expedition to Assam, and created one of the country's finest gardens at Exbury."In 1933 Kingdon Ward received permission from the Tibetan Government to botanise in Zayul. He describes his journey and comments on the seasonal movements of the Assamse tribes into Zayul. A detailed map of his north route of Rima is included. In the discussion that followed his lecture to the Royal Geographical Society there are comments by [F. M.] Bailey on his 1911 journey to this area" (Marshall).Presentation and inscribed copies of works by Kingdon-Ward are seldom encountered in commerce.

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