Mushrooms: The Edible and the Poisonous

COOKE, M.C.  EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS: WHAT TO EAT AND WHAT TO AVOID.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1894. 8vo. Pictorial cloth binding. viii, 126, (2), 8 pages, 18 chromolithographic plates. First edition.

A fine, bright copy of an uncommon book on mushrooms featuring eighteen colored plates by William Griggs.  This was a joint publication with E. and J.B. Young & Co., New York.  The book illustrates twenty-six edible and twenty-two poisonous varieties.  The odds being slightly in your favor.

$285.00