Natural History / Cryptogams, Ferns & Mushrooms

AFZELIUS, Adamus and Andreas Magnus WADSBERG. De vegetabilibus Svecanis observationes et experimenta.
Uppsala, Johan Edman, 1785. 4to. Disbound. [4], 36 pp. Full description

BERNARD, Georges Eugène. Champignons observés à la Rochelle et dans les environs.
Paris, Mareschal and Martin (text); Germer Ballière et compagnie (atlas), 1882. 2 volumes (text & atlas). 8vo. Atlas volume with 56 lithographed plates (7 partly hand-coloured). Contemporary half cloth, with the original publisher's printed paper wrappers bound in. 434, [1], [1 blank]; IV pp. Full description

[HERBARIUM - MUSHROOMS]. BERTILLON, [Louis-Adolphe] & F[rançois]. [Herbier de champignons].
[Paris and Maison-Laffitte], 1862-1912. 4to & folded folio leaves in a 4to portfolio (23 x 18 cm). A mushroom herbarium comprising samples of 23 varieties of mushroom, each mounted on paper, with manuscript notes and an occasional pencil drawing, the two earliest mounted and written on a pre-printed form. Loosely inserted in a contemporary half green cloth portfolio. [26] ll., the 2 folio ll. folded in half. Full description

COLETTI, Ferdinando. Sull' avvelenamento pe' funghi.
Padova, Prem. Stab. di P. Prosperini, 1863. 8vo. Green paper wrappers. 62 pp. Full description

FAVRE-GUILLARMOD, Louis. Les Champignons Comestibles et les espèces vénéneuses avec lesquelles ils pourraient ètre confondus.
Neuchatel, J. Sandoz; Paris, Librarie Agricole de la Maison Rustique, 1869. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 41 chromo-lithographed plates. Modern half morocco. 53, [2]; 9, [1 blank], 47, [1] pp. Full description

LÖBE, William. Die Getreidearten und Hülsenfrüchte. Aus Deutschlands Landwirthschaftlicher Flora.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Baensch, 1863. With 28 hand-coloured engraved plates and 2 engraved plates.
With:
(2) LÖBE, William. Die Gräser der Wiese und des Waldes. Aus der Landwirthschaftlichen Flora.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Baensch, 1863. With 19 (of 21) hand-coloured engraved plates.
(3) EBBINGHAUS, Julius. Die Pilze und Schwämme Deutschlands. Mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Anwendbarkeit als Nahrungs- und Heilmittel, so wie auf die Nachtheile derselben.Leipzig, Wilhelm Baensch, 1863. With 32 hand-coloured engraved plates.
(4) REDSLOB, Julius. Die Moose und Flechten Deutschlands. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung auf Nutzen und Nachtheile dieser Gewächse.Leipzig, Wilhelm Baensch, 1863. With 32 hand-coloured engraved plates. 4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary half calf. [8], 54; VI, 72; [6], VIII, 64; [4], 96 pp. Full description

PABST, Gustav and Walther Otto MÜLLER. Cryptogamen-Flora enthaltend die Abbildung und Beschreibung der vorzüglichsten Cryptogamen Deutschlands.
Gera, C.B. Griesbach, 1874-1877. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to (33 x 24.5 cm). With 12 numbered lithographed plates by C. Bollman in part 1; several wood engravings in text and 25 (numbered 23) chromolithographed plates by J.G. Bach in part 2; 1 lithographed and 8 numbered chromo-lithographed plates by Franz Dietsch in part 3. Original decorated publisher's cloth. [2], XXVIII; [4], 98; [6], 36 pp. Full description

RABENHORST, Ludwig and Georg WINTER. Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz. Zweite Auglage ... Erster band: Pilze.
Leipzig, Eduard Kummer, 1884 (Weinheim, J. Cramer, 1963). 8vo. Modern black half calf. VIII, 924, 63, [1 blank] pp. Full description

ROMAGNESI, Henri. Nouvel atlas des champignons.
[Paris], Bordas, 1956-1967. 4 volumes. 4to. With 316 numbered chromolithographed plates after Chenantais and lithographed by Mourlot, 39 full-page black and white illustrations, and 68 illustrations in the text. Publisher's original cloth (each volume a different colour), in the chromolithographed green dust jackets. 96; 202; 64; 224 pp. plus plates. Full description

ROQUES, Joseph. Histoire des champignons comestibles et veneneux, ornée de figures coloriées représentant les principales espèces dans leurs dimensions naturelles, où l'on expose leurs caractères distinctifs, leurs propriétés alimentaires et économiques, leurs effets niusibles et les moyens de s'en garantir ou d'y remédier, ouvrage utile aux amateurs de champignons, aux médecins, aux naturalistes, aux propriétaires ruraux, aux maires des villes et des campagnes.
Paris, Hocquart aîné, Gosselin, Treuttel, et Wurtz, 1832. 4to. With 24 beautifully handcoloured engraved plates showing all kinds of mushrooms. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter light brown calf, kept in a cardboard slipcase. [4], 192 pp. Full description