New York: Hollanders Workshop, 1972. Portfolio (56 x 38 cm.), [30] leaves (10 double sheets folded once, 10 single sheets)+ [2] title & colophon leaves. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 75 copies from a total edition of 90. A unique collaboration between the great avant-garde composer John Cage, the textile artist and instructor at Pratt Institute Lois Long, and the distinguished botanist and president of the Mycological Society of America.....
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968. Octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), x, 196 pages. FIRST EDITION. Castaneda's first book, a first-person narrative documenting his interactions with Mexican shaman don Juan Matus between 1960-65. The text was submitted as Castaneda's doctoral thesis in Anthropology at UCLA. 'The book is divided into two sections. The first section, The Teachings, is a first-person narrative that documents Castaneda's initial interactions with.....
Bordeaux: Edition de la Truffereine, 1966. Duodecimo in wrappers (18.5 x 13.5 cm.), 192 pages. Illustrated with woodcuts by Maurice Albe, engravings by Marc Dautry, and black & white photographs by Jacques Lagrange. FIRST EDITION, trade issue; there were also 400 copies on Condat paper. A study and celebration of "Le Diamant de la Cuisine", the black truffle. With stories, legends, research, and instruction on the collection and preparation of.....
Albany: New York Department of Agriculture, 1919. Large quarto ( x cm.), 686 pages. FIRST EDITION. Includes information on nearly twenty nine hundred edible foods, by far the largest and most complete study of its kind to the date of its publication. Very good in green cloth.
Paris: Éditions du Muséum, 1967. Two volumes, large quartos ( x cm.), 322 pages. Frontispiece, title page illustration of Psilocybe Wassonii Heim, Seventeen color plates after watercolors by Heim et al., 20 photographic plates, numerous illustrations in text (some color), 3 maps; [and] 219 pages. Eleven plates (six in color), 34 illustrations in text (some color), map. FIRST EDITION. Wasson's Mexican Mushroom Trip. The lavishly produced, pioneering study of the.....
[Troy, N.Y. [circa 1895]. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 1-2, 59-134 pages. Index. References. Manuscript on printed blank account book. Thirty two pages of handwritten text and illustrations in pencil. An interesting mycological manuscript, in that it is focused on mushroom propagation and not identification. Descriptions of individual varieties are followed by growing specifications. Some of the descriptions are accompanied by pencil depiction of the mushrooms. Internally very good; some.....
[l’Ain (France): circa 1870]. Large quarto (32.5 x 25 cm.), eight sheets of text and six of color drawings. There are forty-nine original watercolors and four plain drawings of mushrooms found in the department of Ain. The watercolor drawings are approximately life-size and realistic with fine shades of color as well as precise details on the feet, rings, blades and caps. ~ Unpublished manuscript by Joannes-Erhard Valentin-Smith, a member of.....
[Switzerland or Germany: circa 1835]. Folio notebook; loose gatherings in separate, ribbon-tied boards (38 x 25 cm.). Two hundred forty original drawings, with accompanying manuscript text, on individual trimmed leaves, each mounted thematically with others of its type, with brass pins to the inside of folio double leafs. Text is in German, with some plant names also in Latin. The lot housed in the original string-tied portfolio boards, heavy green.....
New York: George W. Harlan, 19 Park Place; J. Campbell, Printer, Vandewater Street, 1880. Square-back stapled book, (17 x 12.5 cm.), 128 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. Author's first book, preceding the series of single-subject books published by Frederick Stokes for which he is more recognized. Murrey was the caterer of New York's Astor House and Philadelphia's Continental Hotel. The book is an amalgam of recipes for familiar New York and.....
1950. Original watercolor (17 x 22 cm.), labeled, signed, and dated by the artist in pencil. On watercolor paper which had been mounted on a thicker card stock, now de-laminated, but in remarkably fine condition. Henry A.C. Jackson (1877-1960) was one of Canada's outstanding amateur naturalists. He was the elder brother of landscape painter A.Y. Jackson, and while A.Y. achieved great fame through his art, Henry chose to quietly document.....
Manhattan, Kansas: Mercury Publishing House, Printers, 1885. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (21 x 14 cm.), 16 pages. FIRST EDITION of the first issue of the first American periodical dedicated to mycology. Includes a statement of purpose for the new journal, and reports of new-found fungi (in this case new fungi from Kansas and from Iowa. Also included is a separate article, "North American Geasters", and a review of new literature.....
Santa Rosa, CA: Agri-Truffle, Inc., 1980. Octavo, [4], 89, [1] pages. Illustrations in the text. Bibliography. FIRST EDITION. "An historical, botanical, agricultural, economic, and culinary perspective of Tuber melanosporum, the edible black mushroom and gourmet's delight." Pictorial wrappers, as issued. Traces of cover soil and wear, else near fine.
Cleveland: Charles Orr, 1899. Small octavo (18 x 14 cm.), 52, [4] pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. The first cookbook dedicated to mushroom recipes published in the U.S., published at the height of the debate about mushrooms in culinary applications. The recipes, in narrative form, often contain the name of the specific mushroom used, e.g. Boletus Soup, Agaricus Campester Stew, Cantharellus Cibarius Stew, Lycoperdon Giganteum with Tomatoes, etc. The introduction is.....
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1957. Octavo (25 x 17.5 cm.), 171 pages. Illustrated with drawings on fifteen plates by Henry A. C. Jackson. FIRST EDITION. An extremely useful glossary or dictionary of some 3000 terms relevant to mycological studies. The illustrations are supplied by the great Canadian amateur naturalist, Henry A.C. Jackson (1877-1960). Henry was the elder brother of landscape painter A.Y. Jackson, and while A.Y. achieved great fame through.....