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MICHAUX, François André & Thomas NUTTALL. The North American Sylva; or a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, Philadelphia: Robert P. Smith, 1853. 6 volumes, large 8° (266 x 162mm.), 277 hand-coloured engraved plates after Redouté, Bessa and others (occasional spotting and light browning mostly to text), contemporary green half morocco gilt, covers with gilt stamped floral designs, spines gilt in compartments (upper cover of one vol. detached, another partially detached, head of one spine eroded, rubbed), g.e., front free endpapers stamped "Alfred de Witt." cf. Brunet III, 1703; Nissen BBI 1361; Pritzel 6196; Sabin 48695. (6)
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MICHAUX, François André & Thomas NUTTALL. The North American Sylva; or a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, Philadelphia: Robert P. Smith, 1853. 6 volumes, large 8° (266 x 162mm.), 277 hand-coloured engraved plates after Redouté, Bessa and others (occasional spotting and light browning mostly to text), contemporary green half morocco gilt, covers with gilt stamped floral designs, spines gilt in compartments (upper cover of one vol. detached, another partially detached, head of one spine eroded, rubbed), g.e., front free endpapers stamped "Alfred de Witt." cf. Brunet III, 1703; Nissen BBI 1361; Pritzel 6196; Sabin 48695. (6)

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MICHAUX, François André & Thomas NUTTALL. The North American Sylva; or a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, Philadelphia: Robert P. Smith, 1853. 6 volumes, large 8° (266 x 162mm.), 277 hand-coloured engraved plates after Redouté, Bessa and others (occasional spotting and light browning mostly to text), contemporary green half morocco gilt, covers with gilt stamped floral designs, spines gilt in compartments (upper cover of one vol. detached, another partially detached, head of one spine eroded, rubbed), g.e., front free endpapers stamped "Alfred de Witt." cf. Brunet III, 1703; Nissen BBI 1361; Pritzel 6196; Sabin 48695. (6)
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