NATURAL HISTORY and SPORT IN MORAY. Collected from the journals and letters of the late Charles St. John.

1863 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 200mm). Ppxlviii,336. Illustrated with a frontispiece and vignette drawings by the author. Brown pebble-grain cloth, blind-ruled, spine titled in gilt.

Published after the author's death, and compiled from the author's papers by Cosmo Innes, (Cosmo Nelson Innes, 1798-1874). The book is prefaced (in both editions) with a memoir of the author by C. Innes, and with an appendix to the memoir (by the author), Life At Rosehall. A month-by-month compilation of notes on sport and natural history in Moray between 1847 and 1853, based on the author's papers. The individual entries are lengthy, with detailed observations, particularly as to the habits and migrations of birds.