[Rarebooks] FS: THE NORTH AMERICAN SYLVA, 1817, with 277 Beautiful Hand-Colored Plates

[Charles Agvent]

MICHAUX, Francois Andre and NUTTALL, Thomas. THE NORTH AMERICAN SYLVA; 
OR, A DESCRIPTION OF THE FOREST TREES OF THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AND 
NOVA SCOTIA... Philadelphia: W. M. Rutter & Co., 1871. Later Edition. 
Six quarto (6-3/4" x 10-3/4") volumes bound in publisher's brown 
half-morocco leather with matching corners and marbled boards. 
Illustrated with 277 beautiful hand-colored plates, comprised of 156 
hand-colored copperplate engravings in the three Michaux volumes and 121 
hand-colored lithographs in the three Nuttall volumes. The lithographs 
in the Nuttall volumes are numbered through 121, but the numbering skips 
plates 30 and 31 (also skipped in text), and two plates each are 
numbered "5" and "10," as issued. The most important work on American 
trees prior to 1900. Michaux's work was first published in 1817-19 with 
the plates engraved by Redoute and his associate, Bessa, and those 
plates are used in this edition. Nuttall's work first appeared in 
1842-49 supplementing that of Michaux covering trees in the Rocky 
Mountains, the territory of Oregon, California, and other areas of the 
U.S. and employing the more advanced technique of lithography instead of 
engraving. One of the classics of American natural history. BENNETT, 
page 76; SABIN 48695: "It is no exaggeration to remark that it is the 
most complete work of its kind, and is a production of unrivalled 
interest and beauty." Ex-Library but with minimal markings: labels and 
stamps on spine, blindstamp and small ink number to title pages; 
frontispiece portrait of Michaux trimmed and pasted on the front 
pastedown of the third volume. Plates generally clean with light foxing 
to maybe 10% of them, mostly in the Michaux volumes. Bindings firm with 
the two Nuttall volumes having clear tape over the spines. Overall Very 
Good. (#021656)        $3,500

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