Fabulous group of chromolithographed plates illustrating edible, poisonous and 'unwholesome' mushrooms. Complete with the full report to the University of New York by Charles H. Peck. In 1868, botanist Charles Horton Peck began studying the fungi of northeastern North America. Before his pioneering efforts, few of this continent’s endemic mushrooms had been described and named. Over the next forty years, Peck described and named more than 3,000 species of fungi - the lion’s share of this continent’s native mushrooms. For this reason, he has been called 'the father of modern American mycology'”

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Condition: A

Partially disbound with some brittleness in text pages. Plates generally very good with minor flaws in blank margins. Sold as a collection of plates.