TENERIFFE, AND ALONG THE SHORES OF MEDITERRANIAN, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and Greece. With observations on the present state and prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the climate, natural history, antiquities, etc. of the countries visited. By… M. R. I. A. Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons In Ireland, Member of the Dublin Natural History Society, &c. In two volumes. William Curry, Jun. and Company. Dublin 1840.

Obra em 2 volumes.

In 4º (de 22x14 cm) com xiv, [i], 464 e viii, 495 pags.

Encadernações da época com lombadas e cantos em pele. Corte das folhas marmoreado.

Ilustrado no texto e em extra-texto com litografias coloridas e mapas.

A descrição da Ilha da Madeira ocupa as pags. 83 a 126 do Iº volume desta obra.

O autor W. R. Wilde, cirurgião irlandês, foi o pai do escritor Óscar Wilde.

 The description of Madeira Island is running from pages 83 to 126.

The author William Wilde was Ireland"s leading oto-ophthalmologic (ear and eye) surgeon and was knighted in 1864 for his services as medical adviser and assistant commissioner to the censuses of Ireland. He also wrote books about Irish archaeology and peasant folklore. A renowned philanthropist, his dispensary for the care of the city"s poor at the rear of Trinity College, Dublin, was the forerunner of the Dublin Eye and Ear Hospital, now located at Adelaide Road.