Search Results: the north american sylva by michaux f andrew

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Philadelphia:: Robert P. Smith,, 1853; 1852 (Vol. III, Nuttall),. all four volumes uniformly bound in 19th c. green ribbed striped gilt-stamped cloth; all edges gilt.. Michaux Vol. 1 front free endpaper absent. Vol. 3 title page nearly detached. There are just a few text pages slightly foxed. The plates are almost all entirely clean and fresh. Light use to cloth; tight and sound. . 8vo,. Illustrated with lovely colored engravings: Vol. I, Plates 1-50; Vol. III, Plates 101-156; Nuttall Vol. II, Plates XLI-LXXX, and Nuttall Vol. III, Plates LXXXI-CXXI. . All four volumes bear the intriguing 19th c. inscription: "Confiscated from John Taylor of Fleetwood Virginia and presented to John Blakeslee by his friend J. Washbourne." Possibly this set has been incomplete since that confiscation.

1865. MICHAUX, F. Andrew, and NUTTALL, Thomas. The North American Sylva; or, a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia.... Phila.: Rice, Rutter & Co., 1865. 5 Vols. The Michaux volumes contains portrait frontis., 156 handcolored engravings; and the Nuttall volumes contain 121 handcolored lithographs. Modern calf-backed cloth, gilt-ruled raised spine bands, green morocco spine labels, A.e.g. Internally clean, a very good set.. Bennett, p. 76. Meisel III, p. 436 (ref). Sabin 48695. Oak Spring Sylva 20 (ref.). Graustein, Thomas Nuttall (Cambridge, 1967). Taxonomic Literature 5966, 6930. Reese, Stamped with a National Character, 21 (ref.). Savage, André and François André Michaux (Charlottesville, 1986). This publication is the most important work on American trees prior to the 20th century. It is the product of the efforts of two of the greatest naturalists to work in nineteenth-century America, François A. Michaux (1770-1835) and Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859). The… Read More

Philadelphia: W.M. Rutter & Co., 1865. 1865 edition, combining the works of Michaux and Nuttall. Five volumes uniformly bound in 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, aeg. Extremities scuffed with some tears and abrasions to leather. All plates present and pristine with a single instance of pressed leaf shadow to verso of plate 16 Michaux Vol. I., and marginal 2" strip offsetting to plate 115 Volume III.. Illustrated with 277 hand-colored plates (156 in Michaux; 121 in Nuttall).. Tall Octavos. 184; 180; 180; 207; 204, 205-15 (index). Translated from the French by J. Jay Smith. Michaux's work is also "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." Nuttall's work also contains "All the Forest Trees Discovered in the Rocky Mountains, the Territory of Oregon, Down to the Shores of the Pacific, and Into the Confines of California, as well as in Various Parts of the… Read More

Full dark brown morocco with embossed decoration to boards, 5 raised bands with debossed decoration and gilt particulars to spine. All edges gilt. Stated in the preface to this edition: "The whole of the sheets of the last imprint were destroyed by a fire at the bindery, wither they had been sent for collation; but fortunately the French copper-plates were in another building. This has enabled the new publishers to issue the work in a much improved style, and has allowed for opportunity for additional notes and remarks." Michaux's volumes contain 156 hand colored plates, all protected with tissue guards; and Nuttall's volumes contain 121 hand colored plates, also protected with tissue guards. Nuttall's title: "The North American Sylva... and Nova Scotia, not described in the work of F. Andrew Michaux, and containing all the forest trees discovered in the Rocky Mountains, the territory of Oregon, down to the shores of the Pacific, and into the confines of California, as well as in various parts of the… Read More

Philadelphia: Rice, Rutter & Co., 1865. Third Issue Of The Third Edition of Michaux and the SEcond Edition of The Nuttal. Hardcover. Very Good, Clean, Leather At Corners Of Volumes and Ends Of Spines Are Lightly Rubbed, Bright Copies Beautifully Rebacked With Spines Saved. Octavo, Five Matching Volumes Complete In Original Half Leather With Marbled Boards, The Nuttall Original Three Volumes Are Two Volumes in This Edition, Spines With Raised Bands and Tooled Panels, Title, Author And Volume In Seperate Panels, All Gilt, AEG. 1849 Frontis Portrait of Francis- Andre Michaux engraved By H. B. Hall From the original Painting By Rembrandt Peale, Together With A Facsimile Of Michaux s signature, 156 Engraved Hand Colored Plates In Vol. 1-3 and Nuttall 121 Lithographic Plates Hand Colored (these reproduced from new Stones After Originals Lost) Octavo, Five Matching Volumes Complete In Original Half Leather With Marbled Boards, The Nuttall Original Three Volumes Are Two Volumes in This Edition, Spines… Read More

6 vols. Philadelphia: Wm. Rutter & Co., 1865. 6 vols. in 5, roy. 8vo, 184; 180; 180; 206; 215 pp. With 277 hand-colored plates as noted below. Original de luxe binding of publisher's full brown morocco, covers richly blind-stamped, blind-stamped and gilt-lettered backstrips, gilt edges, collector’s modern bookplate in each volume. Joints lightly scuffed. Very occasional foxing to tissue guards or plates but generally a very clean fresh set. § Combined edition of this classic work of American natural history in the finest de luxe format. "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." Sabin 48695. The plates, drawn for the original edition by the famous Redouté brothers and Pancrace Bessa, feature the leaves, berries, flowers, and nuts of trees from coast to coast. The Michaux volumes contain 156 hand-colored stipple engravings, and the Nuttall volumes contain 121 hand-colored lithographs, each showing the… Read More

Philadelphia: Wm. Rutter & Co, 1865. hardcover. very good(+). (3 volumes with 156 engraved plates). TOGETHER WITH: Nuttall's North American Sylva Not Described in Michaux (2 volumes with 121 lithographed plates). Combined edition of the two works, complete in five volumes with 277 very fine hand-colored engraved plates, protected by tissue. The plates, drawn for the original edition by the famous Redoute brothers and Pancrace Bessa, feature the leaves, berries, flowers, and nuts of trees from coast to coast. Imperial 8vo, publisher's 3/4 brown morocco with blind-stamped and gilt-lettered spines (some light edgewear; bookplates removed with minimal damage to pastedown endpapers; pages and plates are very clean). Philadelphia: Wm. Rutter & Co., (1865/1871). A very good(+) copy.<br/><br/> A classic work of American natural history. "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."… Read More