VICTORIA, Queen of Great Britain, Empress of India (1819-1901). Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1868. 4° (307 x 237mm). 8 steel-engraved and 2 chromolithographed plates, illustrations. (Occasional light spotting.) Original red pictorial cloth gilt (edges rubbed with nicks, lower cover with inkstains). "Illustrated edition". IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on verso of front endpaper, "To dear Alfred from his affectionate Mama", initialled, and dated "Jan. 21 1869". Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh and Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900), was the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. With another related book. (2)