The trees of North America : Michaux and Redouté's American masterpiece / volume editors, Susan M. Fraser and Sally Armstrong Leone ; foreword, Gregory Long ; preface, Susan M. Fraser ; introduction, Marta McDowell ; afterword and additional illustrations, David Allen Sibley.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY ; London : Abbeville Press Publishers, [2017]Edition: First editionDescription: 392 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmISBN:- 9780789212764
- 0789212765
- Michaux, François André, 1770-1855. Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale. Selections. English
- QK115 .T73 2017
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Non-lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves | QK110 .M53 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 39352800168817 |
At head of title: New York Botanical Garden.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-383) and indexes.
Foreword : The North American sylva and the New York Botanical Garden / Gregory Long -- Preface : The North American sylva : a landmark of American botanical history / Susan M. Fraser -- Introduction : François-André Michaux and Thomas Nuttall : the forest and the trees / Marta McDowell -- The plates -- A note about the plates -- The species -- Afterword : The North American sylva and the art of botanical illustration / David Allen Sibley.
A landmark volume of American forestry, illustrated by a French botanist and written by an English botanist and plant explorer in the mid-1800s, is reproduced and gorgeously rendered in full-color with capsule summaries of every tree species featured.