A treatise on the climate amd meteorology of Madeira; / by the late J.A. Mason, M.D. ... edited by James Sheridan Knowles. To which are attached a review of the state of agricuture and of the tenure of land; by George Peacock. ... and an historical and descriptive account of the island, and guide to visitors; by John Driver.

London : John Churchill. Liverpool: Deighton and Laughton, 1850.

xiv, 2 unnumbered pages, 388 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : tables (engravings) ; 22 cm (8vo)

Collation includes final advertisement leaf

With errata slip

T.p. verso: "Liverpool: Printed At The Mail Office ... ".

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Lawson 257 Note: With 8-page Deighton catalogue and 32-page list of "Mr. Churchill's Publications, In Medicine, Surgery, And Science" (Nov. 1849) at end. Binding: orig. blue cloth, gilt-stamped with a palm tree, vine and rustic frame around Madeira(?) arms on upper cover, repeated in blind on lower; gilt spine with title, place and date within similar motifs. Tickets "Bound By Westleys & Co. Friar Street, London." (Ball 103 B1) and "Sold By J. Moodie Miller 2, Lindsay Place Edinburgh." Ex Scottish Meteorological Society and National Library of Scotland (cancelled)