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.

Folio: xli-[1 bl.]-118-[1] pp.; 54 pl.

Publ. binding: half red shagreen (rubbed), gilt titled cloth on covers, flat gilt titled spine, decorative endpapers. Good copy.

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.