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LES CHAMPIGNONS HALLUCINOGÃNES DU MEXIQUE. ÃTUDES ETHNOLOGIQUES, TAXINOMIQUES, BIOLOGIQUES, PHYSIOLOGIQUES ET CHIMIQUES
by Wasson, R. Gordon, and Roger Heim, et al
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About This Item
Paris: Ãditions du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle [wrapper imprint], 1958.. 322pp. plus 36 plates in sequence with captions in glassine interleaves. Small folio (32.5 x 25 cm). Tan cloth, gilt lettered spine label, original wrapper bound in. Illustrations in text (including colored illustrations), color frontis. Folding table. Cloth a trifle hand-soiled, internally fine. First edition, the preferred issue with the color pictorial vignette mounted on the front wrapper and without the wrapper designation as the first volume of a serial publication in sequence of the Museum's ARCHIVES. An important chapter in the history of ethno- mycology, being a summary and analysis of the authors' findings concerning the use of the psilocybin mushroom as a healing agent and religious sacrament by curandera MarÃa Sabina Magdalena GarcÃa among the indigenous peoples of Oaxaca. Herein appear Wasson's controversial photographs of Maria Sabina and her hosting of a velada.
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- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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- Title
- LES CHAMPIGNONS HALLUCINOGÃNES DU MEXIQUE. ÃTUDES ETHNOLOGIQUES, TAXINOMIQUES, BIOLOGIQUES, PHYSIOLOGIQUES ET CHIMIQUES
- Author
- Wasson, R. Gordon, and Roger Heim, et al
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ãditions du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle [wrapper imprint]
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1958.
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About William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
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- Folio
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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