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November 11, 04:37 PM GMT
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[IAN FLEMING]--BRITISH ASSOCIꦏATION FOR THE ADVAꩵNCEMENT OF SCIENCE: A COMMITTEE OF SECTION H
NOTES AND QUERIES ON ANTHROPOLOGY. LONDON: THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, 1929
8vo, FROM THE LIBRARY OF IA🍰N FLEMING, fifth edition, OWNERSHIP ANNOTATION (“Ian Fleming | Genève | 25.2.30”) on front free endpaper, diagrams in the text, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, design to upper&nbsဣp;cover in gilt, collector’s blue cloth folding case
This copy of a work on anthropology, first published in 1874, belonged to Ian Fleming while he was a💧t Geneva University.ꩵ On the advice of Forbes Dennis, Fleming studied at Geneva between 1929 and 1930. He was attempting to improve his French in order to pass the Foreign Office examination.
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From the library of Ian Fleming