Peterson, Lee A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guide Series) Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1977. Illustrated by Lee Peterson, Roger Tory Peterson First Edition, first printing
Hard cover, 12mo, in green decorated cloth with titles in green and vignette plant art in black to front board and spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated and labelled plant specimens on endpapers. 37 color plates as well as in-text black and white illustration. Free and nutritous, foraging for wild food is, by long tradition, an important survival skill. Includes identification guide to poisonous plants, as well as ways to prepare foraged food safely. Area of coverage: 37 states, and north into Canada. 330 pp. CONDITION: Fine in a fine d/j, now in mylar.

Ref: NATH 9409

$65.00