[AMERICAN TREES]. [WEBSTER?] An Essay on the Culture of Silk and Raising White Mulberry Trees, the leaves of which are the only proper food of the silk-worm. By a citizen of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1790. 8vo. 8-page pamphlet. Disbound. First edition. Evans 22491; Sabin 102410. Scarce. – A Description of the Large Black Walnut Tree from Lake Erie. London: J. Briscoe, 1828. 8vo. 8-page-page pamphlet, woodcut device on last page. Stabbed and sewn; quarter morocco slipcase. First edition. Checklist of the Library of Herschel V. Jones 896. Scarce. – MARSHALL, Humphry. Catalogue Alphabétique des Arbres et Arbrisseaux, qui croissant naturellement dans les Etats-Unis de l’Amérique Septentrionale. Paris: Cuchet, 1788. 8vo. Half-title. Contemporary marbled calf. First French edition. Provenance: John Jay Paul (bookplate, gift inscription from “L.S.L.”: “For John Jay Paul, With the Hope that he may succeed in establishing the Franklin Tree in Florida.” The first edition of this work was dedicated to Benjamin Franklin and included a description of the Franklin tree on pp.75-77). Hunt 694; Sabin 44777.