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SCOTTISH SPORTS -- [MAXWELL, William Hamilton (1792-1850)]. Wild sports of the West with Legendary Tales and Local Sketches . London: Richard Bentley 1832. 2 volumes, 8° (213 x 136mm). 5 plates, illustrations within the text. (Some spotting and a little staining, some offsetting.) Contemporary half-calf, blindtooled spine, leather spine labels (extremities rubbed). Provenance : Philip Hamond (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. MAXWELL, W.H. Wanderings in the Highlands and Islands ... being a sequel to Wild Sports of the West . London: A.H. Baily, 1844. 2 volumes, 8° (221 x 136mm). Frontispiece portrait of the author, half-titles, 16-page publisher's advertisements in vol.I, 4-page advertisement in vol.II. (Offsetting from the portrait.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt border and spine, red and black spine labels, by Bickers and Son, original green cloth, tooled in blind and gilt, bound in. SCROPE, William. The Art of Deer Stalking . London: John Murray 1839. 8° (255x 155mm). Additional lithographic title, frontispiece, and 10 lithographs, these BEFORE LETTERS, after Edwin and Charles Landseer (Some spotting.) Publisher's green cloth, spine and covers blocked in gilt and blind. Provenance : F. Menteith Ogilvie (bookplate). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED: 'With the author's best regards -- 12 Belgrave Square, April 26, 1839'. This copy collates as the first edition, with the title dated 1838, but with the additional title dated 1839. Schwerdt II, p.154; together with ST JOHN, Wild Sports & Natural History of the Highlands (London: T.N. Foulis, 1919), FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED: 'To darling Harry from his devoted sister. Mary Xmas 1919'; SCROPE, Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing (London: John Murray 1843); and another 11 works in 13 volumes on sports in the Highlands including 4 by Grimble and Robertson's Forest Sketches: Deer-Stalking and other Sports in the Highlands Fifty Years Ago (Edinburgh: 1865, Schwerdt II, p.137). (20)