The North American Sylva

The North American Sylva; or A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, Considered Particularly with Respect to their use in the Arts, and their Introduction into Commerce; to which is Added A Description of the Most Useful of The European Forest Trees. 

Illustrated by 156 Coloured Copperplate Engravings, by Redoute, Bessa, etc.

Translated From the French of F. Andrew Michaux, Member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, etc.

With Notes by J. Jay Smith, Member of The Academy of Natural Sciences, etc.

In Three Volumes. 

Vol. I.

Robert P. Smith, Philadelphia.

1853.