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Schaeffer, Johann Christian. Fungorum qui in Bavaria et Palatinatu circa Ratisbonam nascuntut icones nativis coloribus expressae ... Regensburg 1762. First edition vols i, ii, iv, third edition vol iii, 4 volumes in 2, 4to., errata leaf, engraved portrait, 330 fine hand coloured plates after Sophie Beez and others, contemporary German red morocco gilt, covers with gilt borders and edges, spines richly gilt in compartments, green morocco labels, all edges gilt and gauffered at extremities, a very handsome set.

€ 28.750
One of the earliest and most attractive colour-plate books on fungi. This is a large and particularly finely coloured copy. Schaeffer (1718-1790) was a Bavarian botanist, zoologist, and clergyman who wrote a number of books on natural history, of which this is the most important. It was one of the first attempts at documenting the fungal flora of a region. Most of the plates reproduce a spore print for each species, probably the first time that this aid in identification was used in mycological illustration. The plates in the first two volumes are not double-sided as described by Stafleu, but either have text on the verso, or are blank. The remainder of the plates are mostly double-sided.
Stafleu TLI 10476; Nissen BBI 1744.

  
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