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Oaks of the United States and of Canada / by F. Andrew-Michaux.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Michaux, François André, 1770-1855.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oak.
- Trees--North America.
- Trees.
- North America.
- Physical Description:
- 28 unnumbered leaves (1 folded) : chiefly illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Sold by S. Bradford and Inskeep [and] Bernard Mac-Mahon, nurseryman, [1813??]
- Notes:
- Title leaf followed by folded leaf, containing brief printed description of each oak, and 26 numbered engravings.
- Engravings (after P.J. and H.J. Redouté and Bessa), here in black and white, are those found in color in the Paris 1810-1813 ed. of Michaux's Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale, with the exception of no. 5 and 14, which are the same (except for captions) as no. 6 and 16 of the 28 plates of oaks in the English-language eds. (The North-American sylva) published 1817-1819.
- Colophon (on folded leaf): Sold at Philadelphia, by S. Bradford, and Inskeep; Bernard Macmahon, nurseryman; London, White and Cochrane; Paris, Trutell et Wurtz; Dentu ... Mongies ... also by the author ...
- OCLC:
- 21937615
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