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: Illustrated by 156 colored engravings. Translated from the French of F. Andrew Michaux ... with notes by J. Jay Smith ... In three volumes
Publisher: D. Rice & A. N. Hart
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng; fre
Subjects: Plants; Trees
Other titles: N. Amer. sylv.
Work titles: Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale
Notes: Vols. 1-3 translated by Augustus L. Hillhouse.

Vols. 4-5 have title: "The North American sylva; or, a description of the forest trees ... not described in the work of F. Andrew Michaux ... by Thomas Nuttall..."

Bound in full brown morocco, blind-stamped. Edges gilt. Yellow-coated endpapers.

Stafleu and Cowan (2nd ed.) 5966, 6930

Pritzel (2nd ed.) 6196

Jackson p. 360.