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 ; with notes by J. Jay Smith
Contributors: Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859; Smith, J. Jay (John Jay), 1798-1881
Publisher: Rice, Rutter
Published: 1865
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng; fre
Subjects: Trees; Arbres
Other titles: Description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia
Notes: Vols. 4-5 have title: The North American sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, not described in F. Andrew Michaux, and 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 / by Thomas Nuttall ... being the fourth [and fifth] volume[s] of Michaux and Nuttall's North American sylva.

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

Vol. 4: No plate or description numbered XXXI but extra plates numbered V-bis and X-bis.