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Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux de la France et des pays Circonvoisins
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Richon; Ernest Roze
Paris: Octave Doin, 1888.Atlas of edible and poisonous mushrooms of France and surrounding countries containing 72 color plates or figures of 229 types of the main species of mushrooms sought for food, and similar suspect or dangerous species with which they are confused drawn from nature with their reproductive organs amplified by Charles Richon… Accompanied by a monograph of these 229 species and a general history of edible and poisonous mushrooms by Ernest Roze… Text illustrated with 62 photoengravings of primitive drawings by old authors and organographic figures by recent authors after reproductions made by Charles Rolet. Key late 19th century work of French mycology. VOLBRACHT 1753. BITTING pg. 398. This copy with the bookplate of French mycologist Raymond Bertault.
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Die Nutzlichen und Schadlichen Schwamme, nebst einem Anhange uber die islandische Flechte
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHarald Othmar Lenz
Gotha: Beckersche Buchhandlung, 1840.The useful and harmful sponges, with an appendix on the Icelandic lichen. The second edition enlarged with descriptions of German sponges. The elegantly coloured plates showing a total of 46 illustrations drawn by J. C. Ausfeld. VOLBRACHT 1165.2.
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Les Champignons Comestibles et les especes veneneuses avec lesquelles ils pourraient etre confundus
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartLouis Favre-Guillarmod
Paris: Librairie Agricole, [1869].Edible and poisonous mushrooms in the Canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland. The first complete edition with the 2 parts in 1 volume. The first part being a reprint of the 1861 edition, Les champignons comestibles du canton de Neuchatel, the second with a new introduction and further invaluable information on the edibility of mushrooms VOLBRACHT 586. This copy with the mycological bookplate of Jacques and Helene Bon.
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Handbook of Australian Fungi
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartM. C. Cooke
London: Williams and Norgate for the Departments of Agriculture in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobarton, 1892.The first monograph on Australian fungi by English botanist and mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914). Containing descriptions of 2079 species of macrofungi, microfungi, and slime moulds (or myxomycetes), of which 377 figures are illustrated across 36 plates. The samples which the handbook are based on were supplied by Ferdinand von Muller, Flora Martin, F. M. Bailey, Sven Berggren, and others, and shipped to Cooke in England. This distance limited the accuracy of the work, nevertheless, as the first volume devoted to the subject its historical import cannot be understated and remains a key work in any Australian mushroom collection.
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Soma and the Fly-Agaric: Mr. Wasson’s Rejoinder to Professor Brough
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Gordon Wasson
Cambridge: Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1972.Ethnomycological Studies No. 2. Foreword by Richard Evans Schultes. The rare second part of Wasson’s Ethnomycological Studies. The paper is an answer to Prof. John Brough of Cambridge, who contested Wasson’s hypothesis that the original soma plant must have been Amanita muscaria.
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Illustrated Genera of Ascomycetes
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard T. Hanlin
St. Paul: The American Phytopathological Society, 1990.A reference tool which allows easy identification of one of the largest groups of fungi to cause diseases of plants. Illustrated by Carol Gubbins Hahn. The first edition, in one volume.
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The Mycophagists’ Book
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartPatricia Healy Evans
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1951.A treatise on the cooking and eating of mushrooms. A fine American private press production limited to 175 copies. This copy inscribed by the author and the printer. VOLBRACHT 567.
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Herbier de la France: Histoire des Champignons
AU$3,000 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre Bulliard; M. Walhein
Paris: Pierre Bulliard, No date.219 manuscript watercolour plates by M. Walhein, a Member of French Mycological Society, from the originals by French physician and botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard (1752-1793). Bound in quarter leather with a typescript index to the plates.
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Les Associations Fongiques des Hauts-Marais Jurassiens et de Quelques Regions Voisines
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJules Favre
Liestal: Druck Ludin, 1960.The Fungal Associations of the Hauts-Marais Jurassiens and some neighboring regions. Volume X, Fasciule 3 of Materiaux pour la Flore Cryptogamique Suisse.
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Etudes Mycologiques Faites au Parc National Suisse; Heterokonten aus Alpinen Boden, Speziell dem Schweizerischen Nationalpark; Mikrobiocoenose der Sphagnumpolster auf God del Fuorn im Nationalpark
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartJules Favre; Wilhelm Vischer; Fritz Heinis
Aarau: H. R. Sauerlander 7 Co., 1945.3 papers from the Results of the Scientific Investigation of the Swiss National Park: 11. Mycological Studies Made in the Swiss National Park by Jules Favre, with 2 colour plates; 12. Heterokonten from Alpine soil, specifically the Swiss National Park by Wilhelm Vischer; 13. Microbiocoenosis of the sphagnum pads on God del Fuorn in the National Park by Fritz Heinis. Printed with the support of the Swiss Federation for Nature Conservation.
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Hit-Parade des Champignons: Champignons Sauvages, Champignons & Nature
AU$55 Read MoreAdd to cartSerge Hureaux
Paris: Iris, 1974.French guide to wild mushrooms.