Feb 10, 2005 - Sale 2032

Sale 2032 - Lot 248

Price Realized: $ 4,370
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
MICHAUX, F. ANDREW; and NUTTALL, THOMAS. The North American Sylva. Engraved portrait, 277 hand-colored plates. 5 volumes. Large 8vo, publisher's blind-stamped morocco, minor wear; bookplate on the front pastedowns (Donald Scott). Philadelphia, 1859
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One of the most important and beautiful works on trees ever published in America. This is the second combined octavo edition of both works, with the plates to Michaux's works being hand-colored engravings and Nuttall's being hand-colored lithographs. Sabin 48695; Reese, Stamped with a National Character 21; Nissen 1361.