THE MOOR AND THE LOCH: Containing minute instructions in all Highland Sports. By John Colquhoun. Volume I.

(1850) 1880 5th enlarged edition. 8vo (133 x 201mm). Ppxvii,448,ads. Frontispiece photograph, b/w illustrations. Dark blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt coat-of-arms ("Ye Hvnter's Badge") on upper board.

"I have determined to keep my hands clear of the extermination of any [species]. The marten, the wild-cat, the kite, and eagle, are not banished from ...Sonachan and Barbea ...and though this whimsical forbearance may subject me to the charge of having sunk the sportsman in the "amateur naturalist," it is an accusation to which I can cheerfully plead "Guilty". Volume one has deer-stalking; deer-driving; wild goats; roe-hunting; seal-shooting; capercailzie, grouse and black-game and ptarmigan shooting; mountain hares; woodcock and snipe, wildfowl on coast and loch; gundogs; and natural history of Bute. The fifth edition included new chapters, "Sound of Mull" and "Early Recollections".