KOUL, Samsar Chand. Srinagar and Its Environs. [Mysore Ciry, The Wesley Press and Publishing House,] 1948.
8vo. Original printed card wrapper, map endpapers; pp. vii, 71, plates after photographs; light marking to binding, otherwise very good.
Very rare first edition of a guide book which was republished right up the 1980s. 'Master Samsar Chand Kaul (1883-1977) was a renowned educationist, ornithologist and environmentalist of his time, when subjects like bird watching and study at natural history was unknown in Kashmir. By profession, he was a teacher in the then C. M. S. School at Fateh Kadal, later Central High School, Srinagar, continuously for 65 years and developed interest among the students in the natural history around; besides teaching of his usual academic subjects' (ikashmir.net).
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