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
By: translated from the French of F. Andrew Michaux ; illustrated by 156 colored engravings
Publisher: J. Dobson
Published: 1841
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng; fre
Subjects: Trees
Other titles: N. Amer. sylv.
Work titles: Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale
Notes: "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" --Note on t.-p.

"The first three volumes of the New Harmony edition are a reprint of the 1819 Paris reissue (3 vol.) of the Hillhouse translation."--Stafleu.

Vols. 4-6 of this edition are vols. I-III of the "North American sylva ... By Thomas Nuttall ... Philadelphia, J. Dobson, l842-1849."

Translated by Augustus L. Hillhouse.

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