Natural History Books: Mushrooms and Fungi
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Bodenpflanzen des Waldes: Taschenbildbuch
Melsungen, Germany: Verlag Neumann-Neudamm, 1977. Second edition. Pp. 420, 630 color and 150 black and white text-figures. Publisher's original light green cloth, letter in silver on the spine and front cover, original pictorial black dust-jacket, lg 12mo. The text is in German. This book is from the private research collection of University of Michigan mycologist Alexander H. Smith. No ownership marks. Minor wear to dust-jacket, overall a near fine copy in a very good dust-jacket..
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USD 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 102.75 | £UK 88.25 | JP¥ 17408]
Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi
Poisonous Mushrooms of Canada, Part 1: The Fungus Fruit Body and Part 2: Fungal Poisoning
Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1985. First edition. Pp. xii, (i), 396; 234 text-figures (100+ color photos and numerous line-drawings). Publisher's original gray cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket lettered in black on the spine and front cover, 4to (11.25 x 9 inches). This is the most comprehensive and authoritative book ever published on the subject and is useful in all of Canada and the northern United States. The book was designed to help mycologists, medical practitioners, general biologists, and mushroom foragers identify quickly and accurately the larger poisonous fungi found in northern North America. The book is divided in to two parts: Part 1: The Fungus Fruit Body (which provides a thorough introduction to fungal structure and taxonomy); and Part 2: Fungal Poisoning (which deals with toxicity and the major categories of fungal poisoning). No ownership makes no signs of use. This volume is from the private research collection of University of Michigan mycologist Alexander H. Smith. A fine copy in an almost fine dust jacket..
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USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 | £UK 40.25 | JP¥ 7913]
Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi
Mykologisches Worterbuch in 8 Sprachen -- Mycological Dictionary in 8 Languages
Jena, Germany: VEB Gustave Fisher, 1980. First edition. Pp. 432; 138 text-figures. Publisher's original textured tan cloth, lettered in brown on the spine and front cover, original orange printed dust jacket, lg 8vo. This is a dictionary of mycological terms in 8 languages (German, English, French, Spanish, Latin, Czech, Polish, and Russian) which aids in translating foreign papers in this specialized field. The work presents 3,200 mycological terms in eight languages. Signature of James A. Weber on the front endpaper. A near fine copy in a dust jacket with a few repaired tears..
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USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.75 | £UK 52.25 | JP¥ 10286]
Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi
Studies on Higher Fungi: A Collection of Papers Dedicated to Dr. Alexander H. Smith on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday
Vaduz, Germany: J. Cramer, 1975. First edition. Pp. vi, 372; 76 full page plates (2 are tipped-in color plates from watercolors, numerous black-and-white photo-plates, some are line-drawings and others are halftone plates. Publisher's original gray stiff printed wrappers, lg 8vo. Beihefte Nova Hedwigia, heft 51. This volume is a collection of 26 papers on fungi and related topics by Alexander H. Smith's colleagues and friends. This volume is from the private research collection of University of Michigan mycologist Alexander H. Smith. A tight and clean copy in near fine condition..
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USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.75 | £UK 52.25 | JP¥ 10286]
Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi
Les Morilles, une nouvelle approche mondiale du genre Morchella
Paris: Société Mycologique de France, 2010. First edition. Pp. 199-376; 67 plates (most are color photographs). Publisher's original red and white printed wrappers, lg 8vo. Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France, tome 126, fascicules 3 et 4. Morchella, the true morels, is a genus of edible sac fungi closely related to anatomically simpler cup fungi in the order Pezizales (division Ascomycota). These distinctive fungi have a honeycomb appearance due to the network of ridges with pits composing their caps. Morels are prized by gourmet cooks, particularly in French cuisine. This monograph describes the morels in detail. The entire volume 126 is offered here. No ownership marks. Small bump to top outer corner; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition..
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USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 20.25 | JP¥ 3956]
Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi
The Amanitas of the Eastern United States
Chapel Hill, NC: Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 1917. First edition. Pp. 88, 69 full page plates (1 in color, 7 are line-drawings, 61 are black-and-white plates). Publisher's original gray printed wrappers, lg 8vo. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, volume 33, no. 1 + no. 2 (double number). The genus Amanita contains about 600 species of agarics, including some of the most toxic known mushrooms found worldwide, as well as some well-regarded edible species. This genus is responsible for approximately 95% of the fatalities resulting from mushroom poisoning, with the death cap accounting for about 50% on its own. The most potent toxin present in these mushrooms is ?-amanitin (from Wiki). An important monograph on mushroom species living in the eastern USA. This book is from the private research collection of University of Michigan mycologist Alexander H. Smith though his signature is not present. Rare. Two rear outer corners are bumped, small stained to rear endpaper, front wrapper restored where tape was removed, faint fold to outer edge of front wrapper, a good solid copy..
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Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi
Fungus flora of Venezuela and adjacent countries
London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1970. First edition. Pp. xxxiv, 531; 15 full page color plates, 9 full page monochrome plates. Publisher's original coarse-weave cream-color cloth, spine is lettered in gilt on a red inset panel, original gray and orange dust jacket, lettered in black, thick sm 4to. From the series: Kew Bulletin Additional Series III, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This volume offers keys to the fungi hitherto recorded from Venezuela and its neighbors to the east and west - Trinidad, Guyana, and Colombia. Fifteen colored plates contain natural size illustrations of 276 species of Agaricales based the author's water-color paintings, and another 158 species of Basidiomycetes and the larger Ascomycetes are figured in line drawings. Because of the pantropical distribution of so many fungi, the work should be of interest to mycologists throughout tropical and subtropical America where no such comprehensive compilation is at present available. This volume is from the private collection of University of Michigan mycologist Alexander H. Smith. It is signed by Smith on the front endpaper. No other ownership marks. Rare work. A fine copy in a lightly worn dust jacket with a repaired tear near the top of the spine..
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USD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 327 | £UK 280.5 | JP¥ 55389]
Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi
The genus Helvella in Europe with special emphasis on the species found in Norden
Kobenhavn (Copenhagen): Dansk Botanisk Forening, 1966. First edition. Pp. 172; 39 text-figures (black-and-white photos, fine line-drawings, 20 maps. Original printed gray wrappers, lg 8vo. From the series: Dansk Botanisk Arkiv, Bind 25, Nr. 1. Helvella is a genus of ascomycete fungus of the family Helvellaceae. The mushrooms, commonly known as elfin saddles, are identified by their irregularly shaped caps, fluted stems, and fuzzy undersurfaces. They are found in North America and in Europe. Well known species include the whitish H. crispa and the grey H. lacunosa. This volume is from the private research collection of University of Michigan mycologist Alexander H. Smith with his signature at the top of the front wrapper. No other ownership marks. Light soiling to the outer rear wrapper; a tight copy in very good condition..
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Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi
The North American Pyrenomycetes: A contribution to Mycological Botany
Newfield, NJ: privately published by the authors, 1892. First edition. Pp. iii, 793; 41 tinted lithographed plates by F. W. Anderson with explanatory text leaves. Early tan cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, thick 8vo. Pyrenomycetes are also known as Sordariomycetes is from the Greek ""the stone of a fruit"" - because of the usually somewhat tough texture of their tissue (from Wiki). The Preface states "" In the present state of mycological knowledge, the classification of North American Pyrenomycetes is attended with many difficulties; chief which is the fact that many of the published diagnoses are too imperfect to enable one to recognize the species, of which many of the types are either lost or practically inaccessible. Our knowledge of these species is derived from the brief descriptions in Grevillea and the supplementary notes by Dr. M.C. Cooke, who has also examined and determined, by comparison with the original types, many of the species included in the present work."" This work was privately published by the authors in a limited edition. See also Stafleu and Cowan, 1660; Volbracht, 541. Rare work. The title page, the preface and the first 6 pages of the text show a minor water mark otherwise a tight and clean copy in very good condition in an attractive early cloth binding..
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Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi
Collection, Description and Identification of the Specified Fungal Flora in the Western and Central Himalayas up to Kathmandu in Nepal: Operculate Discomycetes
Chandigarh: Botany Department, Panjab University, 1970. First edition. Pp. (iii), 252; Original pale green wrappers, lettered in black on the front cover, thick 4to. Discomycetes are a group of fungi in the class Ascomycetes in which the surface of the fruiting body is exposed during maturation of the spores (from Wiki). The front cover has a small rectangular stamp ""National Fungus Collections, Received March 31, 1970."" This volume is from the private research collection of University of Michigan mycologist Alexander H. Smith. Some wear to paper spine at the top and bottom, also some wear to the edges of the wrappers, overall very good..
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Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi
Collection, Description and Identification of the Specified Fungal Flora in the Western and Central Himalayas up to Kathmandu in Nepal: Inoperculate Discomycetes
Chandigarh: Botany Department, Panjab University, 1969. First edition. Pp. (iii), 191, xv. Original pale green wrappers, lettered in black on the front cover, thick 4to. Discomycetes are a group of fungi in the class Ascomycetes in which the surface of the fruiting body is exposed during maturation of the spores (from Wiki). This volume is from the private research collection of University of Michigan mycologist Alexander H. Smith. Top rear outer corner is bumped extending into the volume for 45 pages, a clean copy in very good condition..
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Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi
Les Discomycetes de France, 20 offprints published between 1932-1959 from the journals ""Revue de Mycologie"" and ""Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest.""
Paris: Laboratoire de Cryptogamie, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 1932-1959. First edition. Pp. 400+, some text-figures. Original printed tan, green or white wrappers, 8vo. This set of offprints is from the private research collection of University of Michigan mycologist Alexander H. Smith. Some edgewear and sunning to wrappers, a very good set..
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Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi
Mycorrhizal Symbiosis
London: Academic Press, 1983. First edition. Pp. x, 483; 40 text-figures (line-drawings, photo micrographs, black-and-white photos). Publisher's original brown cloth, lettered in copper-gilt on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. This volume is from the private research collection of University of Michigan mycologist Alexander H. Smith. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine copy..
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Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi
Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae I - V
Lehre, Germany: J. Cramer, 1973. First edition. Pp. viii, 200; 122 text-figures. Original gray printed stiff wrappers, lg 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches). Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia, heft 43. This work is based on a two-year study (1967-1969) of the Agaricales of New Zealand. Agaricus is a genus of mushrooms containing both edible and poisonous species, with possibly over 300 members worldwide. The genus includes the common (""button"") mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) and the field mushroom (A. campestris), the dominant cultivated mushrooms of the West. Members of Agaricus are characterized by having a fleshy cap or pileus, from the underside of which grow a number of radiating plates or gills on which are produced the naked spores. They are distinguished from other members of their family, Agaricaceae, by their chocolate-brown spores. Members of Agaricus also have a stem or stipe, which elevates it above the object on which the mushroom grows, or substrate, and a partial veil, which protects the developing gills and later forms a ring or annulus on the stalk (from Wiki). A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..
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Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi
The Genus Achlya: Morphology and Taxonomy
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1956. First edition. Pp. xv, 180; 22 full page plates (line-drawings). Publisher's original dark blue ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, cream-color dust jacket, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, 8vo. This volume describes all known species of one of the important genera of water molds. The book is based on the entire body of published morphological and taxonomic information as well as on the author's own observations of over 800 collections. Its scope includes European, Asian and American species. Most of the valid species are illustrated. A tight and clean copy in fine condition in a near fine dust jacket..
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Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi