Author: Bresadola, G.
Title: Iconographia Mycologia. Volume XII.
Description: Mediolani [Milano], Società Botanica Italiana Museo Civico di Storia Narurale di Trento, 1929. Small folio (24. x 16.6 cm). Title pages, occasional section (Genus) titles; 49 of 50 loose-leaved colour-printed plates with accompanying text leaves (numbered 551-571, 573-600). Quarter cloth portfolio with printed boards. = Part of a beautifully illustrated series by the Italian mycologist Giacomo Bresadola (1847-1929). Bresadola wrote 25 volumes, published between 1927 and 1933. Original copies, such as this one are rare. The work is finely illustrated and of great taxonomical importance. Bresadola introduced several new taxa. Lacks plate and text to number 572, Leptonia turci Bres. Portfolio flaps flimsy and detached; the boards, plates, and text leaves, however, very good, unmarked. Volbracht 243.

Keywords: