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FLORA AGARICINA DANICA (complete in Six volumes)
by LANGE, JAKOB E
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
Society for the Advancement of Mycology in Denmark, 1935. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Published under the Auspices of the Society for the Advancement of Mycology in Denmark and the Danish Botanical Society. Collaborators N.F. Buchwald, M.P. Christiansen, C. Ferdinandsen, Poul Larsen et al. Vol. I-V (all).Copenhagen, 1935-40. Large 4to. Text to each volume and 200 superb chromolithographed plates. All bound uniformly in dark red cloth with gilt titling to the spines, Index bound separately in cloth with gilt to the spine. First edition. One of the technically finest chromolithographed books ever produced, interestingly the author recommends that they should be examined with a lens. - "Flora agaricina Danica.are both scientifically invaluable and superb examples of modern printing" (G.C. Ainsworth) - Nissen BBI:1132. Contents clean and tight, but for a small embossed stamp to the front endpapers, Birkbeck College, on the front pastedown there is a neat plate to the top corner, " Department of Botany, birkbeck College, otherwise unmarked, plates very clean..
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- Loe Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026299
- Title
- FLORA AGARICINA DANICA (complete in Six volumes)
- Author
- LANGE, JAKOB E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Society for the Advancement of Mycology in Denmark
- Date Published
- 1935
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fungi;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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