Description
This Tiny Folio presents, in modern taxonomic order, all 277 of the hand-colored plates from Franois-Andr Michaux’s classicNorth American Sylva, as well as the supplemental volumes by Thomas Nuttall. These masterworks of nineteenth-century botanical illustration–by such artists as Pierre-Joseph Redout and Pancrace Bessa–represent the leaves, fruit, and flowers of American trees with wonderful grace and clarity. Published in cooperation with the New York Botanical Garden,The Trees of North Americaincludes a preface and introduction describing how Michaux and Nuttall’s pioneering work came to be.
Abbeville Press
Pub Date:April 13, 2021
1.1″ H x 4.5″ L x 4.3″ W
336 pages
hardcover
