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Altre immaginiHistoire 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. First edition.
Michaux, François André (1770 -1855), author; Pierre-Joseph Redouté, (1759-1840),artist; Henri-Joseph Redouté, (1766-1852), Dessinateur du modèle;Pancrace Bessa (1771-1846). Dessinateur du modèle; Gabriel (17.-1. ; graveur).
Editore: Paris: De l'imprimerie de L. Haussmann et d'Hautel-13., 1810
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Da: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
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Aggiungi al carrelloCondizione: Good. 3 volumes. Large 8vo (252 x 162 mm). 138 (of 141) engraved color stipple engraved plates, finished by hand. Contemporary mottled calf, decorated with gilt foliate borders on covers, gilt spines, restored; lacking 2 "bis" plates in volume II (not present in all issues), foxing. on some text pages but plates fres…h.FIRST EDITION of the first work on the subject of the trees of North America. Issued in 24 fascicules over 3 years, with some variation in collation, plate count, and title page variants; in this case the text corresponds to Stafleu issue 2, but with an issue 3 title page in volume 3. Great Flower Books p 68; Nissen BB1 1360; MacPhail 12b; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 5961; Bibliotheque National de France, ark:/12148/bpt6k97835c/; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:49107118; MacPhail, Andre and Francois Andre Michaux 12B (title to vol.II dated 1812); Meisel III,p.371; Oak Spring Sylva 19."In 1806 Michaux again set sail for America but was captured by the British and detained for several months in Bermuda. Arriving in New York in May, he spent the next three years studying and classifying trees in the northeastern United States, Quebec, and Nova Scotia. In 1807 he met Robert Fulton and became such a good friend that he was one of two passengers on the Clermont 's landmark trip up the Hudson River. After returning to France, he wrote a three-volume work called The North American Sylva; or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. It was published in Paris from 1810 to 1813 and translated into English five years later. Michaux spent most of the rest of his life managing experimental farms owned by the Société Centrale de l'Agriculture near Paris, devoting much of his work to the cultivation and propagation of trees and shrubs grown from seeds he had sent back from America.".
