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JEAN-BAPTISTE BARLA (1817-1896)
Flore Mycologique illustre les Champignons des Alpes Maritimes avec l'indication de leurs proprits utiles ou nuisibles. Nice: 1888[-1892]. 4 (343 x 260mm). Half-title. 69 chromolithographic plates after Barla and V.Fossat, by V.Fossat, printed by A.Gilletta of Nice, two folding. (Text and plates numbered 49-59 browned, section of upper margin of leaf following the title excised, with loss to headline of verso.) Contemporary red morocco-backed boards, spines gilt (extremities rubbed).
First edition, rare at auction. Fine illustrations of the mushrooms and fungi of Nice and the surrounding Alpes Maritimes. Nissen BBI 79; Stafleu & Cowan 310.
Flore Mycologique illustre les Champignons des Alpes Maritimes avec l'indication de leurs proprits utiles ou nuisibles. Nice: 1888[-1892]. 4 (343 x 260mm). Half-title. 69 chromolithographic plates after Barla and V.Fossat, by V.Fossat, printed by A.Gilletta of Nice, two folding. (Text and plates numbered 49-59 browned, section of upper margin of leaf following the title excised, with loss to headline of verso.) Contemporary red morocco-backed boards, spines gilt (extremities rubbed).
First edition, rare at auction. Fine illustrations of the mushrooms and fungi of Nice and the surrounding Alpes Maritimes. Nissen BBI 79; Stafleu & Cowan 310.