Traite Pratique des Champignons Comestibles


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    First Edition.

    24.5cm x 15.5cm. [iv], 144, [1] pages, 12 plates (10 hand-coloured, 1 folding). Quarter cloth, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering. Text is in French.

    Practical Treatise on Edible Mushrooms, including their organization, their botanical characteristics, their nutritional properties, their cultivation, the manner of preparing them, the means of distinguishing them from poisonous species and the care to be given to persons poisoned by the latter.

    Rubbing to fore-edge corners. Previous owner’s and name to the half-title with a wash applied leaving a stain to the crown fore-edge corner of the preliminary leaves. Moderate tanning, mostly to the preliminaries, minor to moderate to the plates. Some light foxing. Single pin-hole to the crown fore-edge corner of the lower half. Very Good Condition.

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