The trees of North America : Michaux and Redouté's American masterpiece / volume editors, Susan M. Fraser and Sally Armstrong Leone ; foreword, Gregory Long ; preface, Susan M. Fraser ; introduction, Marta McDowell ; afterword and additional illustrations, David Allen Sibley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fraser, Susan M., editor, writer of preface.

Leone, Sally Armstrong, editor.

Long, Gregory (Gregory R.), writer of foreword.

McDowell, Marta, writer of introduction.

Sibley, David, 1961- writer of afterword, illustrator.

New York Botanical Garden, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Redouté, Pierre Joseph, 1759-1840.

Redouté, Pierre Joseph.

Michaux, François André, 1770-1855.

Michaux, François André.

Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859.

Nuttall, Thomas.

Trees--North America--Identification.

Trees.

North America.

Genre:

Field guides.

Nonfiction.

Identification.

Physical Description:

392 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; London : Abbeville Press Publishers, [2017]

Summary:

A landmark volume of American forestry, illustrated by a French botanist and written by an English botanist and plant explorer in the mid-1800s, is reproduced and gorgeously rendered in full-color with capsule summaries of every tree species featured.

Contents:

Foreword : The North American sylva and the New York Botanical Garden / Gregory Long

Preface : The North American sylva : a landmark of American botanical history / Susan M. Fraser

Introduction : François-André Michaux and Thomas Nuttall : the forest and the trees / Marta McDowell

The plates

A note about the plates

The species

Afterword : The North American sylva and the art of botanical illustration / David Allen Sibley.

Notes:

At head of title: New York Botanical Garden.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-383) and indexes.

Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award Nominee, 2019

Contains:

Container of: Michaux, François André, 1770-1855. Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale. Selections. English.

ISBN:

9780789212764

0789212765

OCLC:

956584009