A landmark volume of American forestry, illustrated by a French botanist and written by an English botanist and plant explorer in the mid-1800s, is reproduced and gorgeously rendered in full-color with capsule summaries of every tree species featured.

At head of title: New York Botanical Garden.

Foreword : The North American sylva and the New York Botanical Garden / Gregory Long -- Preface : The North American sylva : a landmark of American botanical history / Susan M. Fraser -- Introduction : François-André Michaux and Thomas Nuttall : the forest and the trees / Marta McDowell -- The plates -- A note about the plates -- The species -- Afterword : The North American sylva and the art of botanical illustration / David Allen Sibley.