MICHAUX, Francois Andre and Thomas NUTTALL. The North American Sylva; or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia. Philadelphia: D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1857. 5 vols. Large 8o. 277 hand-colored engraved or lithograph plates (intermittent light browning to text and a few plates, some marginal foxing to other plates, dark stain affecting 3 plates in vol. IV). Contemporary brown half-morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, g.e. (very minor shelfwear). Reese, Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books, 21. (5)