Sale: 359 / Rare Books including Marine Art, Nov. 16./17. 2009 in Hamburg Lot 254

Fritz Leuba - Les Champignons, 1890.


254
Fritz Leuba
Les Champignons, 1890.
Estimate:
€ 200 / $ 214
Sold:
€ 240 / $ 256
(incl. surcharge)
Leuba, F., Les champignons comestibles et les espèces vénéneuses avec lesquelles ils pouraient être confondus. Décrits et peints d'après nature. With 52 lithogr. mushroom plates in colours (of. 54). Neuchatel et al, Delachaux et Niestlé et al [1887]-1890. New half calf with gilt lettering (using the old board covers). Small folio. XL (of XLI), 118 pp., 1 l.
Nissen 1183. - Krieger/Kelly p. 127. - Uellner 991. - Volbracht 1172. - First edition of this fine monography on mushrooms. - A further edition was released in 1906, a German edition was printed in Basel in 1888-1892. - Copy lacking the two plates 53/54 as well as the last text l. of the "Première partie" (XLI). Somewhat foxed, 2 plates with slight adhesions in the white margin (thus 1 plate with small defective spot), 1 plate with restored marginal tear. Boards stained.



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Fritz Leuba
Les Champignons, 1890.
Estimate:
€ 200 / $ 214
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€ 240 / $ 256
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