A TOUR IN SUTHERLANDSHIRE; with extracts from the field-books of a sportsman and naturalist. By Charles St. John, Esq. Second edition, with an appendix on the fauna of Sutherland by J.A. Harvie-Brown, F.Z.S., etc., and T.E. Buckley, B.A., F.Z.S., etc.

(1849) 1884 second edition. Two volumes. Small 8vo (135 x 195mm). Ppxxvi,296;x,374,ii[ads]. Engraved plates and vignettes after the author's sketches. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt and with simple gilt shield on upper board.

"The present volume consists of extracts from a Journal, written during a wandering excursion through Sutherlandshire, one the most interesting counties in Scotland, and one of the least known; of a series of field-notes for each month in the year, written during my residence in the pleasant land of Moray; and of a few miscellaneous chapters of interest to the sportsman. Such as they are, I offer them to the public, trusting that they will receive them as the off-hand thoughts and observations of one who is more accustomed to the hillside than to the study - to the gun than to the pen". "The second edition of [this book] is almost an exact reprint of the original, as published in 1849". . . with the addition of a new chapter on the fauna of Sutherland by Messrs Buckley and Harvie-Brown, with contributions from numerous other local naturalists and "keepers, shepherds, ghillies, everywhere throughout the county, too numerous to mention". . . Further additions to these "volumes are Capt. H.C. St. John's brief recollections of his boyhood; and the vignette illustrations from the author's sketch-books, which have been carefully drawn and engraved by Mr. John Adam, Edinburgh".