North American sylva
Subtitle: or, a description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. 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.
Contributors: Smith, J. Jay 1798-1881.; Hillhouse, Augustus L. 1791-1859.; Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859.
Publisher: D. Rice & A. N. Hart
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Trees -- North America.
Notes: Pritzel 6196. Jackson p. 360.

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..."

Autograph Receipt Signed by Michaux tipped into Vol. 1.

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

Bookplates of John Wm. Roy Crawford.