WANDERINGS OF A NATURALIST. By Seton Gordon.

1921 1st edition. Large 8vo (165 x 240mm). Ppxiv,220. 78 b/w photographs by the author and his wife. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt and pale blue vignette illustrations to spine and upper board, blind border to upper board.

One of twenty-seven books on natural history by the world-renowned Scottish naturalist and photographer, Gordon Seton (1886-1977). Many of the chapters were first published in magazines and newspapers such as the Scotsman, the Times, Country Life, and Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. "These pages...deal chiefly with the highlands of Scotland and their birds, but the reader will find descriptions of the Northumbrian coast in winter, the Aran Islands west of the Irish coast, and a hill pass of the Pyrenees." Lavishly illustrated with photographs for a book of its era.