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FRIES, ELIAS MAGNUS. Icones selectae Hymenomycetum nondum delineatorum. Uppsala: P.A.Nordstedt & Son, 1867-1884. 2 vols., folio, 380 x 277mm., 20th-century green half morocco, slight bowing of covers, some spotting to titles, text and occasionally to plates, repaired tears to upper margin of plate 192 and inner blank margins of first five text leaves of vol.II. Portrait of the author, 200 chromolithographed plates after P.Akerlund, O.Gottmann and others. Nissen BBI 655; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1894.
FIRST EDITION. RARE. The edition, according to Stafleu, was limited to 200 copies, published originally in 20 fascicles (the final nine by T.M. & R.Fries). Fries, the progenitor of two generations of reknowned Swedish botanists, is one of the founders of taxonomic mycology. (2)
FIRST EDITION. RARE. The edition, according to Stafleu, was limited to 200 copies, published originally in 20 fascicles (the final nine by T.M. & R.Fries). Fries, the progenitor of two generations of reknowned Swedish botanists, is one of the founders of taxonomic mycology. (2)