Author: Joseph Roques
Title: Histoire des Champignons, Comestibles et Veneneux, .. Avec un Atlas
Description: Chez Fortin, Masson et Cie, Paris, 1841. Second Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition. Text: 23cm x 14cm. [iv], 482, [1] pages, 32 advertisements. Quarter cloth, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering. Atlas: 32cm x 24.5cm. [iv], 24 hand coloured plates. Quarter cloth, lettered papered boards. Text is in French. [History of edible and poisonous mushrooms, decorated with colored figures representing the main species in their natural dimensions; where we expose their distinctive characteristics, their nutritional and economic properties, their harmful effects and the means of guaranteeing or remedying them, a useful work for mushroom lovers, doctors, naturalists, rural owners, mayors of cities and countryside, etc.] The second edition of one of the most important (and beautifully illustrated) early works on edible wild mushrooms and fungi in France. VOLBRACHT 1793.2. The atlas with 3 additional colour plates (1 folding) from two other works bound in at the beginning. The text volume rebound in quarter cloth with the original wrappers bound in. Some flecking to cloth, rubbing to corners. Minor soiling to edges. Minor foxing. Atlas: Boards worn. Foxing, more so to text and first and last plates. Shipped Weight: 1.45 kilos.
Keywords: BZDB407 Natural History & Resources; Foreign Language::French; French Language; Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia::Mushrooms. Unbranded Joseph Roques Histoire des Champignons, Comestibles et Veneneux, .. Avec un Atlas Foreign Language::French Ethnopharmac
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Title: Histoire des Champignons, Comestibles et Veneneux, .. Avec un Atlas
Description: Chez Fortin, Masson et Cie, Paris, 1841. Second Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition. Text: 23cm x 14cm. [iv], 482, [1] pages, 32 advertisements. Quarter cloth, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering. Atlas: 32cm x 24.5cm. [iv], 24 hand coloured plates. Quarter cloth, lettered papered boards. Text is in French. [History of edible and poisonous mushrooms, decorated with colored figures representing the main species in their natural dimensions; where we expose their distinctive characteristics, their nutritional and economic properties, their harmful effects and the means of guaranteeing or remedying them, a useful work for mushroom lovers, doctors, naturalists, rural owners, mayors of cities and countryside, etc.] The second edition of one of the most important (and beautifully illustrated) early works on edible wild mushrooms and fungi in France. VOLBRACHT 1793.2. The atlas with 3 additional colour plates (1 folding) from two other works bound in at the beginning. The text volume rebound in quarter cloth with the original wrappers bound in. Some flecking to cloth, rubbing to corners. Minor soiling to edges. Minor foxing. Atlas: Boards worn. Foxing, more so to text and first and last plates. Shipped Weight: 1.45 kilos.
Keywords: BZDB407 Natural History & Resources; Foreign Language::French; French Language; Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia::Mushrooms. Unbranded Joseph Roques Histoire des Champignons, Comestibles et Veneneux, .. Avec un Atlas Foreign Language::French Ethnopharmac
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- Book number: 0035314
- Book number: 0035314
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