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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo., xvi, 348 pages, tinted lithograph frontispiece showing 'The Peak of Teneriffe', some light occasional scattered spotting mainly to margins of frontispiece, bound in the original blindstamped cloth with spine titled in gilt, lightly marked. A generally VG+ copy in the original binding of this scarce work. (Garcia-Romeral, 495). The author having fallen into ill health, was recommended by his medical advisor to spend a winter abroad; after long pondering where he should go, he sailed for Madeira, and spent some months there in the winter of 1848. Not deriving particular benefit from the climate of Madeira, he continued his voyage to the Canary Islands, where, having sojourned for a time, he sailed to Cadiz. He spent the following winter in Spain, and then crossed the Mediterranean, paying a short visit to the opposite countries of Morocco and Algiers. The first account of the Canary Islands in English since 'The History of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands' by George Glass, London 1764.…