British Edible Fungi: How to Distinguish and to Cook Them
M. C. CookeLondon: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1891.
First Edition.
19.5cm x 13cm. 237 pages, 12 colour plates. Original green cloth, gilt and black lettering.
With coloured figures of upwards of 40 species. This copy with 2 manuscript notes in the hand of mycologist John Ramsbottom and a 1919 postcard addressed to Edward King from an unidentifiable hand with mention of Paxillus involutus.
Spine discoloured. Plate 10 loose, neatly laid in. Very Good Condition.
Jenkins is exhibiting at the Melbourne Rare Book Fair.
Online orders can still be placed and will ship from August 18.
AU$300.00
1 in stock