FERDINAND I (Prince Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg, 1861-1948, King of Bulgaria 1908-1918, ‘Foxy Ferdinand’)

Programme for the International Congress of Ornithologists boldly signed on the front cover, inside are the lists of members and information about the Congress and the Dinner in several languages, 10 pages 8vo., together with the envelope in which it was sent to Louis B. Frewer, Rhodes House, Oxford, 5th July

Ferdinand was an ally of the Kaiser in World War I. Ex-King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, known during the war as "Ferdy the Fox", was once refused permission to enter England by King Edward, but he came to England in July 1934 and went to Rhodes House, Oxford where he attended an Ornithological conference.

Item Date:  1934

Stock No:  41970      £225

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