The North American sylva; or A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia
Subtitle: considered particularly in 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 copperplate engravings, by Redoute, Bessa, etc
By:  Translated from the French of F. Andrew Michaux, member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, etc. With notes by J. Jay Smith, member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, etc. In three volumes
Contributors: Michaux, André, 1746-1802, contributor; Hillhouse, Augustus L. (Augustus Lucas), 1791-1859, translator; Smith, J. Jay (John Jay), 1798-1881, editor, writer of supplementary textual content; Bessa, Pancrace, 1772-approximately 1835, illustrator; Redouté, Pierre Joseph, 1759-1840, illustrator; Redouté, A. (Antoine), 1756-1809, illustrator, engraver; Redouté, Henri-Joseph, 1766-1852, illustrator; Riché, A. (Adèle), 1791-1878, illustrator; Delaporte, Rosine-Antoinette, 1807-1897, illustrator; Bessin, Marie Joseph, engraver; Jacquinot, Lse. Fse. (Louise Françoise), engraver; Renard, active 19th century, engraver; Gabriel, Georges François Marie, born 1775, engraver; Joly, J. N., engraver; Boquet, 1751-1817, engraver; Cally, P. A., engraver; Smith, Robert Pearsall, 1827-1898, publisher; Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859; Kite & Walton
Publisher: Robert P. Smith, Philadelphia
Published: 1853
Place of publication: [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Botany; Trees
Other titles: North American sylva; Description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia
Work titles: Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale
Notes: Translation of: Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale

"The foundation of the North American sylva, was laid by the laborious researches of the elder Michaux [that is, André Michaux, father of François André Michaux]" --Preface

Translation by Augustus L. Hillhouse, with corrections by the editor

Published together with the continuation by Thomas Nuttall: 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 ... Being the fourth[-sixth] volume of Michaux and Nuttall's North American sylva

Illustrated with hand-colored stipple engravings. "All American editions used the French copperplates."--Stafleu

Illustrators include Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Antoine Redouté, Henri-Joseph Redouté, Pancrace Bessa, Rosine-Antoinette (Bessin) Delaporte, and Adèle Riché; engravers include Marie Joseph Bessin, Renard, Georges Gabriel, J. N. Joly, Boquet, P.A. Cally, and Lse. Fse. Jacquinot

Includes bibliographical references and index

Stafleu, F.A. Taxonomic literature (2nd ed.), 5966n

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