Les champignons comestibles et les espèces vénéneuses avec lesquelles ils pourraient être confondus. Ouvrage accompagné de 54 planches en chromo-lithographie.

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

Quarter black shagreen with corners (one corner sl. def.), green gilt titled cloth, gilt titled spine (somewhat rubbed). Good copy.

First edition of this important study on edible mushrooms by the Swiss pharmacist and mycologist F. Leuba (1848-1910). Ill. with 54 chromolithogr. plates, of which 2 in b/w, 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.