1949 A Glimpse of Madeira

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition. 

With the very scarce original dust wrapper, price-clipped. 

This well-versed guide to Madeira discusses its discovery, the formation of the islands, colonisation, the people, transport, street vendors, exports and much more. 

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece painted by Max Romer and many monochrome photographs and reproductions of old prints. 

Written by Cecil H. Miles, who was born in Madeira and became Vice-Consul of the Ministry of Information services at the British Consulate in Funchal.