LEUBA, Fritz - Les champignons comestibles et les espèces vénéneuses avec lesquelles ils pourraient être confondus. Décrits et peints d'après nature. Ouvrage accompagné de 54 planches en chromo-lithographie.
Description: Folio: xli-[1 bl.]-118-[1] pp.; 54 pl. - First edition of this significant study on edible mushrooms by the Swiss pharmacist and mycologist F. Leuba (1848-1910). Ill. with 52 chromolithogr. plates and 2 b/w pl., by H. Furrer and C. Krause after the author. Important study on mushrooms, their biological particularities, their geographic distribution, their metabolism, but also their culture, their conservation and their culinary preparations. - Ref. Nissen (BBI) 1183. - Stafleu-Cowan 4457. - COPAC. - Not in BnF, Pritzel.
Artist Name: LEUBA, Fritz Circa: 1890
Condition: Publ. binding: half red shagreen (rubbed), gilt titled cloth on covers, flat gilt titled spine, decorative endpapers. Good copy.
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Description: Folio: xli-[1 bl.]-118-[1] pp.; 54 pl. - First edition of this significant study on edible mushrooms by the Swiss pharmacist and mycologist F. Leuba (1848-1910). Ill. with 52 chromolithogr. plates and 2 b/w pl., by H. Furrer and C. Krause after the author. Important study on mushrooms, their biological particularities, their geographic distribution, their metabolism, but also their culture, their conservation and their culinary preparations. - Ref. Nissen (BBI) 1183. - Stafleu-Cowan 4457. - COPAC. - Not in BnF, Pritzel.
Artist Name: LEUBA, Fritz Circa: 1890
Condition: Publ. binding: half red shagreen (rubbed), gilt titled cloth on covers, flat gilt titled spine, decorative endpapers. Good copy.
