Revue de Mycologie

2nd Printing

Seller Notes: “For description and condition of this book see below” Year Printed: 1957 Subject: psychedelic MAGIC MUSHROOMS Topic: SOMA psilocybin Language: FRENCH Binding: Softcover, Wraps Magazine Publisher: REVUE DE MYCOLOGIE Author: Roger Heim Place of Publication: PARIS FRANCE We are offering three very scarce French journals REVUE DE MYCOLOGIE 1957, 1958 & 1959 containing some of the earliest research on the ancient Mexican psilocybe mushroom (teonanacatl) involving three principal figures: Roger Heim, the foremost French mycologist; Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD and synthesized psilocybin from the mushrooms Heim brought to him from his expedition to Mexico with R. Gordon Wasson, the world-renowned ethnomycologist and first outsider to ingest the mushroom and tell the world of its extraordinary effects. All are in original printed wrappers, decorated with a mushroom motif. Please Note: ALL TEXT IN FRENCH (JOURNAL # 1) Roger HEIM, 1957 "Notes préliminaires sur les Agarics hallucinogènes du Mexique" in Revue de Mycologie (Paris, May 1957), pages 58-79. 2nd Printing of the first papers in French and quite probably the first in any language on the Mexican psilocybe species of hallucinogenic mushrooms. This article gathers the first four papers ever written by Heim on hallucinogenic mushrooms. It gives an account of Heim’s examination of the specimens sent by Gordon Wasson from his trips to Mexico in 1953-1955, and also the account of Roger Heim’s own trip there in the summer of 1956 with Gordon Wasson. The species described are Psilocybe Mexicana, Psilocybe Zapotecorum, Psilocybe Aztecorum, Psilocybe caerulescens var. Mazatecorum, and Psilocybe caerulescens var. nigripes. The papers appeared slightly earlier in the Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des sciences, a much scarcer journal distributed only to members of the Academy. This issue of the Revue de Mycologie, the official publication of the museum edited by Roger Heim, was published the very month that Gordon Wasson’s famous article describing his experiences as the first outsider to ingest them appeared in Life Magazine 1957. == Jonathan Ott, Pharmacotheon, page 523, where this is listed as the earliest of Heim’s monographs on the subject. Heim’s paper mentions by name the CIA agent who, unknown to him and Gordon Wasson, accompanied them on the expedition.