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The American woods : exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text / by Romelyn B. Hough.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection SD536 .H83 v.1-14
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trees--North America.
- Trees.
- Wood.
- North America.
- Wood--United States.
- United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Bartram Library Committee (donor) (v.1-8)
- Physical Description:
- 14 volumes : illustrations, plates, samples. ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lowville, N. Y. : The author, 1888-1928.
- Contents:
- pt. I-IV. New York and adjacent states.
- pt. V. Florida.
- pt. VI-X. Pacific slope.
- pt. XI-XII. Atlantic and central states.
- pt. XIII-XIV. Southern Florida.
- Notes:
- Accompanying text for each volume bound separately and inserted in volume. The volume is then inserted in slipcase with tin clasp at side. The spine of each case is lettered in gilt.
- The plates are specimens of American woods, with each plate showing three cross sections of the wood: transverse, radial and tangential. The botanic name with English translation (s) is at top of each plate with translations into French, German and/or Spanish (when known) at base of plate.
- Each volume contains 25 plates for a total of 350 numbered plates. Supplementary plates appear in vols. 1-3.
- Later ed. published under title: Hough's encyclopaedia of American woods.
- Includes index volume (v. 10) and individual indexes in each accompanying text.
- Vol. 1-2: 2d ed.
- Vol. 14 pub. by R. B. Hough Co. Text by Marjorie G. Hough.
- OCLC:
- 1731723
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