Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye by Weld, Charles Richard - 1860

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts. Good with no dust jacket. 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library (Mudie's Select Library). Mudies's yellow label on front board. Labels removed from front pastedown endpaper leaving surface chips. Cloth boards rubbed and faded. Heavy rubbing to joints. Some bruising and wear to corners of boards with a 1/4" chip to the cloth at one corner. 1/2" tears to cloth at head of joints. Hinges broken. Plates and text leaves fairly clean with little foxing. Tissue guards present to all plates. ; xix, [3], 404 pagse + 4 chomolithograph plates + 4 in-text illustrations + 24 pages advertisements. Original red cloth boards with gilt deocation on spine. Publisher's advertisements on endpapers. Page dimensions: 196 x 121mm. Selected contents: Invitation to the Highlands; A Night in the Train; Down Tweedside; The Dwarf's Tomb; View from Moncrieff Hill; The Peripatetic Philosophers; From Aberdeen to Caithness; Amazing Quantity of Herrings; A Herring Breakfast; Wick; Drying Nets; A Ghaist-alluring Edifice; Wild Sportsmen; Preparations for Grouse Shooting; Examination of Guns; A plentiful Breakfast; Tea versus Whisky; The Day's Shooting; The River Thurso; The Country round Brawl; Disappointment in Salmon Fishing; Spittal Hill; Origin of the Picts; An Oasis in the Desert; A primitive Caithness Hovel; Kiess Castle; Excursion to the Orkneys; Rapid Growth of Seaweed; Huge Russian Ganoid; Odin Stone; A wretched Dwelling; Proceed to Kirkwall; Magnificent Aurora; To Sutherland; The Southland of the Northmen; Mythical Zoology; The Sea Serpent; Vast Possessions of the Duke of Sutherland; Loch Monar; Ben Laoghal; Loch Hope; The North Sea; Cape Wrath; Sandy Wilderness; Grim Rocks; A Trout Breakfast; Gualan House; Stony Giants; Again in the Wildernes; The Black Mount; A Courteous Maiden; Archipelago of Islands; Salt Pastures; Experiments to determine the Earth's Density; Beauties of Loch Inver; The Scenery between Scourie and Golspie; Lose my Luggage; Phosphorescent Fish; Cross the Moray Firth to Burgh Head; Leave Inverness; The Storr Rock; Bad Inns in Skye; The Macrimmons; Sligachan; A Mountain Mere; Rare Plant; Ancient Woods; Origin of Skye; Drive to Balmacarra; Angling near Balmacarra; Dornie Ferry; Aberdeenshire Farmers; The Glengarrys; Rock of the Ravem; Tyndrum. ; Ex-Library; 8vo .