The North American sylva, 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. : Illustrated by 150 colored engravings. / By F. Andrew Michaux, member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia; of the Royal Agricultural Society, correspondent of the Institute of France, etc. ; [Two lines from Pliny the Younger] ; Vol. I[-III].

Author/creator Michaux, François André
Other author Hillhouse, Augustus L. (Augustus Lucas), 1791-1859, translator.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Sold by Thomas Dobson.--Solomon Conrad. ; Paris : Printed by C. D'Hautel, 1817[-1819]
Description3 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentShaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. Second series no. 41426. ^A575643
General noteTranslation of: Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amerique septentrionale ... Paris, 1810-1813. "N. For the translation of the present half volume, I am indebted to my friend Augustus L. Hillhouse, of Connecticut. F.A.M."--v. 1, p. [269].
General noteVol. 2 published in 1818; v. 3 in 1819. The volumes themselves were evidently issued in parts. Vol. 2 has a title page for the "fourth half volume" after p. 116; v. 3, title pages for the "sixth half volume" and "seventh half volume" after p. 82 and 194 respectively. A leaf listing the plates in the first part of v. 2 was evidently intended to be replaced by the list of plates for the entire volume, but is present in the American Antiquarian Society copy.
General noteVol. 1: [4], xii, 268, [2] p., 50 leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 116, [3], 118-250 p., 51-100, [1] leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 82, [3], 84-194, [3], 196-285, [1] p., 101-156 leaves of plates.
General noteErrors in paging: v. 2, p. 5, 165, 229 misnumbered 6, 155, 292.
General note"Errata."--v. 3, p. [286].
References Shaw & Shoemaker 41426
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 41426).

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