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(BOTANICAL.) Michaux, Francois Andre. The North American Sylva, or a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada andNova Scotia...Translated from the French. 156 stipple engraved plates after Redoute, Bessa and others printed in colors and finished by hand. 3 volumes. Royal 8vo, 10 3/4x7 inches, original pink paste-paper covered boards with gilt morocco spine labels, light wear, a few quires shaken and nearly loose; uncut; moderate to heavy foxing and offsetting, colors bright. Paris: C. d'Hautel, 1819
provenance: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with his bookplates to each pastedown; free endpapers of volumes II and III inscribed by his father, S. Longfellow; tipped to the half-title of volume I, a note reads: "Dear Henry, I send you a keepsake from the Old House, please accept with my love & best wishes. Ever affectionately, yr sister Anne. Jan. 1st 1853".
