The Trees of North America
michaux and redouté’s american masterpiece
$33.23
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
17 May 2021
Summary
The Trees of North America: A Miniature Botanical Treasury
A miniature volume of exquisite botanical prints - the perfect gift for tree lovers. This Tiny Folio presents, in modern taxonomic order, all 277 of the hand-coloured plates from François-André Michaux’s classic North American Sylva, as well as the supplemental volumes by Thomas Nuttall.
These masterworks of nineteenth-century botanical illustration - by such artists as Pierre-Joseph Redoute and Pancrace Bessa - repr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780789214027 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0789214024 |
| Series: | Tiny Folio |
| Author: | Gregory Long |
| Publisher: | Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 17 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 305g |
| Dimensions: | 111mm x 101mm |
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About The Author
Gregory Long
David Allen Sibley is one of the world’s best-known natural history illustrators and the author of acclaimed field guides, including The Sibley Guide to Trees, which have sold more than one million copies.
Gregory Long is Chief Executive Officer and The William C. Steere Sr. President of The New York Botanical Garden.
Susan M. Fraser is Vice President and Director of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden.
Marta McDowell is a gardener, lecturer, and horticultural writer. Her books include A Curious Herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell’s Pioneering Masterpiece of Botanical Art, Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers, and Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life, winner of the Gold Award from the Garden Writers Association.
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