Nouvel Atlas de Champignons, Volume 1
Mycology: 1956, with 79 full-page colour plates of mushrooms
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Printing Details
First French edition. Hardback, red cloth with printed titling to spine. 29.5 × 22.5cm, 93pp + 79 colour plates. French text.
Published under the auspices of the French Mycological Society, this book has a lengthy introduction on mushrooms, followed by 79 full page colour plates, with text opposite describing the names, habitat, uses of the mushrooms pictured
Condition
The book is ex-library (Wye College in Kent, a well-known agricultural college that closed in 2009), with an attractive college bookplate to the front pastedown. The book has the usual discard marks to the endpapers, and a small label to the spine. The spine is also a bit faded but the contents, and in particular the plates, are in very good condition.
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