[Mycology] BARLA (Jean-Baptiste). Illustrated mycological fl - Lot 28

[Mycology] BARLA (Jean-Baptiste). Illustrated mycological flora. Les Champignons des Alpes-Maritimes, with indications of their useful or harmful properties. Nice, A. Gilletta, 1888. One volume in-4, half cloth post. 80 pp. with 69 plates. First edition published in 7 issues between 1888 and 1892. It contains 69 chromolithographed plates after drawings by the author and Vincent Fossat, numbered from 1 to 64 with 5 plates bis: 3 bis, 4 bis, 8 bis, 9 bis, 16 bis. Jean-Baptiste Barla, a naturalist from Nice, was one of the leading specialists in the flora and mycology of southeastern France. He was also director of the Nice Natural History Museum, an institution he founded with Jean-Baptiste Vérany. With, by the same author: Description et figures de quatre espèces de champignons. 1857. In-4 unbound 12 pp. and 4 color plates, one of which folding (T. 16 to T. 19) from Novarum Actorum Academiae Caesarea Leopoldino Carolino de Breslau. Vol. 27. Wear.