Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale, : considérés principalement sous les rapports de leur usage dans les arts et de leur introduction dans le commerce ainsi que d'après les avantages qu'ils peuvent offrir aux gouvernemens en Europe et aux personnes qui veulent former de grandes plantations. / Par Fs. André-Michaux.
François André Michaux (1770-1855)
Category
Books
Date
1810 - 1813
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101525
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., col. plates ; 8vo. Pencil number on verso of front free endpaper in vol. 1: "6141". Pencil note on verso of front free endpaper in vol. 1: "140 cold plates". [i.e. coloured plates]. Pencil code on verso of rear free endpaper in vol 1: "uu-o-o". Other pencil notes on free endpapers in vol. 1 have been erased. Pencil numbers added at head of each entry. Ephemera: two typescript descriptions of this set (one in English, one in French) loosely inserted in vol. 1. Binding: Nineteenth-century half red morocco, marbled paper over boards; gilt tooling; recessed cords; spines elaborately gilt tooled with vol. no. lettered direct; green morocco spine labels: 'Michaux Plantes d'Amerique'; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
François André Michaux (1770-1855), author