The Moor and the Loch containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports. Vol. I-II
- Collection : A fine ornithological and natural history library
- Publisher : William Blackwood and Sons
- Published In : Edinburgh and London
- Illustrations : 2 mounted b/w photo frontispieces, 13 plates, 2 text engravings
Description:
Sixth edition, enlarged. John Colquhoun (1805-1885), Scottish sportsman and writer on sport and game. The author was always a keen and accurate observer of nature; but in his sympathy for the Scottish highlands' wilder days and for the preservation of endangered fauna, he confessed to 'having sunk the sportsman in the “amateur naturalist”' - Preface (3rd ed., 1851).
Mullens & Swann p. 140.
Condition
2 vols, 8vo (198x136mm), later green half calf, with Henry Sotheran's ticket to front endpaper of Vol. II, raised bands to spine, gilt tooling and motifs to compartments, top edges gilt, spines slightly faded. Minor browning to margins of endpapers. Very good set.
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