Handbook of Australian Fungi

M. C. Cooke

London

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Williams and Norgate for the Departments of Agriculture in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobarton

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1892

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First Edition.

22.5cm x 14cm. xxxii, 457, [1] pages, 36 plates (20 in colour), [2] advertisements. Green cloth, gilt lettering, gilt top edge.

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.

Minor flecking to cloth. Half-title and title page repaired at gutter. Minor tanning. Very Good Condition.