[Rarebooks] FORSALE: NUTTALL COLOR PLATES,1853

[Norman Kane]

NUTTALL, THOMAS.  THE NORTH AMERICAN SYLVA; OR A DESCRIPTION OF THE FOREST TREES OF THE UNITED STATES, CANADA & NOVA SCOTIA NOT DESCRIBED IN THE WORK OF F. ANDREW MICHAUX . . . FINE PLATES COLOURED BY A. BIEGEMAN. IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL. 3, BEING THE SIXTH VOLUME OF MICHAUX & NUTTALL’S NORTH AMERICAN SYLVA.  Philadelphia: Robert P. Smith; London: B. Baldwin; Paris: H. Bossange; Hamburg: Perthes, Besser & Mauke, 1853.    4to, full calf, both covers elaborately goldstamped with a series of frames and corner ornaments, all edges gilt, marbled end papers, professionally rebacked in calf to match, with raised bands, place marker intact – in short, a nice copy. 41 handsome  clean, unfoxed color plates (nos.81 – 121, as called for by the text.) A landmark of American color plate books, as well as a landmark work on the American sylva.       
$ 1950.00  ($ 1700.00 TO THE TRADE)

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