RICHON, Charles & ROZE, Ernest. Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux de la France et des pays circonvoisins contenant 72 planches en couleur ou sont représentées les figures de 220 types de principales espèces de champignons recherchées pour l’alimentation, et des espèces similaires suspectes ou dangereuses avec lesquelles elles sont confondues. Dessinées d’après nature avec leurs organes reproducteurs amplifiés par Charles Richon… Accompagné d’une monographie de ces 229 espèces et d’une histoire générale des champignons comestibles et vénéneux par Ernest Roze… Paris, Octave Doin, 1888.
Folio [355 x 265 mm] of (2) ll., xcviii pp., (1) bl. l., 265 pp., xii pp., 72 numbered plates in full page. Bound in contemporary quarter green buckram, flat spine decorated with gilt title.
Rare first edition of this treatise dedicated to comestible and toadstool mushrooms of France and its bordering countries. G.C. Ainsworth, Introduction to the History of Mycology, p. 320; Nissen BBI, 1691.
The Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux de la France is composed of a first scientific part and a second one illustrated. The first part deals with the history and the development of mycology, and presents a classification of mushrooms as well as a study of the 229 principal species of comestible and toadstool mushrooms of France. The second part is made of coloured plates representing the mushrooms from different point of views and in cross section.
The abundant illustration of the present work is actually composed of 62 figures in the text reproducing antique engravings after the works by matthiole, l’obel, l’ecluse, Bauhin, dillen, micheli … and 72 chomolitographs in full page of a great quality of execution engraved after drawings by Charles Richon. Charles Richon was a doctor in medicine, member of the Société Botanique de France and the Société académique of the department of La Marne.
A fine copy of this sought-after treatise of mycology abundantly colour-illustrated.
Provenance: ex-libris of H. S. C. Huijsman (1900-1986) on the half-title, great amateur specialist in mycology who gave his name to a mushroom, the Conocybe huijsmanii.
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