[COMBE, William].- A history of Madeira with a series of twenty-seven engravings, illustrative of the costumes, manners, and occupations of the inhabitants of that island.- London: published by R. Ackermann, 1821.- V, [1 br.], 118, [2] p.: [27] gravuras color.; 27 cm.- E. William Combe (1742-1823), English writer and adventurer, contemporary of William Beckford, published this work at the age of 79. Original edition published without the author's name, illustrated with a vignette on the title page and 27 aquatints, coloured by hand, portraying Madeiran usages and customs with some ingenuity and humor. Copy only cropped to the top, very clean, preserving great freshness in the prints. At the end, it includes four pages with a list of the publisher's publications, which do not belong to the edition. Foreign symbolic ex-libris(?) with the initials A.L.S. (unidentified). Remarkable binding, entirely blue morocco, signed, from the London workshop of “Rivière & Son” (after 1926), with delicate gold tooling on the spine and squares, fillet in the thickness of the folders and top edge gilt; at the centre of both covers the heraldic book stamps crowned of José de Araújo Pinto Leite (1871-1956), 2nd Count of Olivais and Penha Longa, with the motto Superabo. Tooley, 150. Duarte de Sousa, II, 348.