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Auction 99, Lot 541
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"Report of the State Botanist on Edible Fungi of New York", Peck, Charles H.

Subject: Botanicals

Period: 1900 (published)

Publication: University of the State of New York

Color: Printed Color

Size:
8 x 10 inches
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Collection of chromolithographic plates from this report by the state botanist, Charles Peck. Includes the title page and 24 plates numbers 44-68 (lacking only plate 47), each with accompanying sheet of text. Plates 69-l37 are not present here and were issued in the seldom-found later supplements. Plus one Japanese woodblock print (6" x 8") of mushrooms from Honzu Zufa, circa 1905. A nice collection of mushroom prints.

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Condition: A

Some slight toning.

Estimate: $60 - $80

Sold for: $70

Closed on 6/12/2002

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