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 trees ... / Tr. from the French of F. Andrew Michaux ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michaux, François André, 1770-1855.

Contributor:

Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859.

Hillhouse, Augustus L. (Augustus Lucas), 1791-1859.

Hillhouse, Augustus L. (Augustus Lucas), 1791-1859, translator.

Bessa, Pancrace, 1772-approximately 1835, illustrator.

Redouté, Henri-Joseph, 1766-1852, illustrator.

Redouté, Pierre Joseph, 1759-1840, illustrator.

Riché, A. (Adèle), 1791-1878, illustrator.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Trees--North America.

Trees.

North America.

Penn Provenance:

Shinn, James (donor)

Physical Description:

3 volumes : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Manufacture:

New Harmony, Ind., Printed by William Amphlett.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Dobson, 1841.

Notes:

''With two additional volumes, 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. Illustrated by many finely colored plates. By Thomas Nuttall ... The whole forming five volumes." --Note on t.-p.

Vols. 4-6 of this edition are vols. I-III of the ''North American sylva ... By Thomas Nuttall ... Philadelphia, J. Dobson, l842-49.''

Translation of Histoire des arbres frestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale by Augustus L. Hillhouse.

"With three additional volumes, 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. Illustrated by 122 finely colored plates. By Thomas Nuttall ... The whole forming six volumes, and comprising 278 plates"--T.p.

Vols. 4-6 of this edition are vols. 1-3 of The North American sylva, by Thomas Nuttall (Philadelphia, J. Dobson [etc.] 1842-49)

Translated by Augustus L. Hillhouse.

Plates by P. Bessa, H.J. & P.J. Redouté, and A. Riche.

Bennett, ... American ... color plate books, p. 76.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: DuBarry gift.

OCLC:

4442026