The North American sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia.
Subtitle: 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 : illustrated by 156 coloured engravings
By: translated from the French of F. Andrew Michaux ; with notes by J. Jay Smith.
Contributors: Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859.
Series: CIHM/ICMH microfiche series -- no. 38868.
Publisher: R.P. Smith; G.P. Putnam
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Philadelphia; New York
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Trees -- North America; Botany -- North America
Other titles: North American sylva.; Description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia.
Notes: "In three volumes."

Part of a CIHM set.

Translation of: Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale.

To be read in conjunction with Thomas Nuttall's "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 ..." which serves as a supplement.

Includes index.

Reproduction of original in: Canada. Agriculture Canada. Plant Research Library.

Pre-1900 Canadiana.

Microfiche. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1983. 4 microfiches (193 fr.) ; 11 x 15 cm. (CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches ; no. 38868).