Author: LAUDER, SIR THOMAS DICK (1784-1848).
Title: An Account Of The Great Floods of August 1829, in the province of Moray, and adjoining districts. By Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart. of Grange and Fountainhall, F.R.S.E. With an introductory note by Miss Dick Lauder. Third Edition.
Description: Elgin: R. Stewart, 141, High Street, MDCCCLXXIII. [1873] . 0. A very good half leather binding. 8vo. 8.75" x 5.75" x 1.0". [4pp.]/pp.xvi/pp. 230 . Brown half calf over marbled boards. Corners and hinges carefully strengthened.Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorated compartments and two red leather title labels: "Great Flood Of 1829"; Sir T. D. Lauder". Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Small booksellers label to verso of the front board: "A. Elliot. Bookseller, 17, Princes Street, Edinburgh." Well illustrated with portrait frontis, 2 maps and 64 plates. Clean throughout. VG. ** Review from a modern printing: "Heavy rains deluged the lands from Wick to the Grampian Mountains. A combination of drought, followed by freak weather conditions caused the rivers especially in Moray, Banffshire and Inverness-shire to rise to levels never experienced before or since. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's account meticulously records the events leading up to the storm and the disasters caused by the flood. Using many local sources of information, he paints a picture of a community fighting to save their belongings and rescue their livestock. For many it was a matter of life or death. The beautifully drawn etchings and maps record just how immense the floods were and how terrifying it must have been to have lived through them.".

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