5 volumes, 8vo (267 x 171 mm). Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of Michaux by H.B. Hall after Rembrandt Peale, 277 hand-colored engraved [Michaux] and lithographed [Nuttall] plates after Bessa, Redoute, and others. Original(?) half morocco, marbled boards, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettering in 2, others with single vine leaf, all edges gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Frederic R. Kilner (bookplates).

Later edition, of THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK ON AMERICAN TREES. "Few American color plate books had such lasting popularity as this classic work on American trees, or as tangled a publication history... In 1856 a fire destroyed the premises of the publisher of the joint edition. The Michaux plates were saved, but the Nuttall stones were evidently lost, and the later joint editions used new stones" (Reese, Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books 21). Bennett, p.76; Great Flower Books 21; Nissen BBI 1361, 1458; Sabin 48695, 56351 ("Of the two works united, it is no exaggeration to remark that it is the most complete work of its kind and is a production of unrivaled interest and beauty").