Les Champignons Hallucinogènes du Mexique: Études ethnologiques, taxinomiques, biologiques, physiologiques et chimiques;

Nouvelles Investigations sur les Champignons Hallucinogènes

Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.  Septième série.

by Roger Heim and R. Gordon Wasson 

In French, two volumes.  Paris:  Éditions du Muséum, 1958 and 1967 

Softback is overall in VERY GOOD+ condition.

• Tan wraps are mostly clean, with black ink title. 
• Wraps show some smudges, edgewear.  Corners are softened.  See photos.  
• Spine has black text; one volume is creased, and ends are bumped.  See photos.  
• Binding is strong.  
• Enpapers have some bookseller notations. 
• Second volume has 3x3" illustrated plate laid down on cover and title page.
• Illustrations are bright and clear, plates have tissue guards.
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. 
• Text block edges have unopened edges.
• PS2026.0319

322 + 113 pages plus plates. 9.75 x 12.75 inches

First Edition.  Two volumes in tan wraps with black ink titles, text in French.  Volume I, with emblem in red ink of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, published as Tome VI of the Museum's Archives, Seventh Series (1958).  Volume II, with inset 3x3" plate illustration (1967), would seem to be Part 2 (Nouvelles Investigations) and begins at page 111.  Both volumes remain largely uncut; the interiors are bright and the plates very good indeed.  Plates follow the text.  Vol. I:  17 color plates reproduce watercolors by Roger Heim, 20 b/w plates.  Vol. II:  11 plates, 5 of which are in color. 

An important early study in 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 María Sabina Magdalena García 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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