Author: Charles St. John; Sir Herbert Maxwell
Title: Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands
Description: London, Gurney and Jackson, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated history of the sports of the Highlands in Scotland. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and forty-nine illustrations over thirty-nine plates, twenty-eight of which are in colour. Collated complete. A detailed record of the wild sports of the Scottish Highlands, including fishing, deer stalking, grouse shooting, angling, rat-catching, hunting weasels and stoats, pigeon shooting, and more, as well as details of poaching over time. With an account of the natural history of the area. Written by Charles William George St. John, and English naturalist and sportsman. With an introduction and notes from Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, a Scottish novelist, essayist, artist, antiquarian, horticulturalist, prominent salmon angler and author. Illustrated by George Denholm Armour, a British painter and illustrator, and Edwin John Alexander, a Scottish artist known for his pictures of animals and birds. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges with the odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: G. Denholm Armour; Edwin Alexander. Very Good .

Keywords: Wild Sports Highlands Natural History Sports G. Denholm Armour; Edwin Alexander


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