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MICHAUX, FRANCOIS ANDRE; and NUTTALL, THOMAS. The North American Sylva.

Portrait, 156 hand-colored engraved plates, 121 hand-colored lithographed plates [complete]. Large 8vo, contemporary 1/ 2 morocco, minor wear; the text a bit toned, but the plates bright and clean; ex-library, with a bookplate on the pastedowns but no other markings. Philadelphia, 1859

  • Notes: A later combined edition of the American natural history classic, the best work on the subject produced in the 19th Century. Reese, American Color Plate Books 21; Bennett, page 76; Nissen, Botanical 1361 and 1458.

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