The North American sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia :
Considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce. To which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees ...
Tr. from the French of F. Andrew Michaux ... with notes by J. Jay Smith.
Description
- Related Names
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Michaux, François André, 1770-1855.
Rutter.
Rice
Smith, J. Jay (John Jay), 1798-1881
Smith, J. Jay (John Jay), 1798-1881, tr.
Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859
Rice, Rutter & Co.
- Language(s)
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English ; French
- Published
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Philadelphia : Rice, Rutter & co., 1865.
- Note
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Vols. 4-5 have title: The North American sylva; or, a description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia, not described in the work of F. Andrew Michaux, and containing all the forest trees discovered in the Rocky Mountains, the territory of Oregon down to the shores of the pacific, and into the confines of California, as well as in various parts of the United States ... By Thomas Nuttall ... 3 v. in 2. Vols I-[II] being the 4th-[5th] vols. of Michaux and Nuttall's North American sylva.
In vol. 4 there extra plates numbered V and V bis, and X and X bis, but no plates or descriptions numbered XXX-XXXI.
With portrait of Michaux in v. 1.
- Physical Description
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5 v. :
277 col. plates ;
29 cm.
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