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Jun 3, 2023
R. Gordon Wasson
Soma and the Fly-Agaric: Mr. Wasson's Rejoinder to Professor Brough
Cambridge: Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1972.
First Edition. Inscribed by Author.
24cm x 17cm. 58 pages. Lettered wrappers.
Ethnomycological Studies No. 2. Foreword by Richard Evans Schultes. The rare second part of Wasson's Ethnomycological Studies. The paper is an answer to Prof. John Brough of Cambridge, who contested Wasson's hypothesis that the original soma plant must have been Amanita muscaria. This copy inscribed by Wasson to Swiss chemist Conrad Hans Eugster declaring that the work on amanati muscaria must go on and enquiring how much of a grant is needed to carry on said work, dated Paris, 28 November 1972.
Very minor shelf wear. Near Fine Condition.
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