Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits and Their Peculiarities / Harriet L. Keeler

Name/Title

Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits and Their Peculiarities / Harriet L. Keeler

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.250

Description

533 pages. Illustrations (178 from photographs and 162 from drawings). Contents: Genera and Species -- Illustrations -- Guide to the Trees -- Descriptions of the Trees: Dicotyledones -- Descriptions of the Trees: Gymnospermae -- Form and Structure of Roots, Stems, Leaves, Flowers, Fruit -- The Tree Stem or Trunk -- Species and Genus -- Index of Latin Names -- Index of Common Names.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Trees, 1900s

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Book Details

Author

Harriet L. Keeler

Edition

Fifth

Publisher

Charles Scribner's Sons

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1900

Date Printed

1907

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Notes

Bound in tan cloth with stunning forest design of trees stamped in grey, pale lavender and black: the trees negatively stamped in black outline, the foliage and land stamped in grey, and the sky stamped a pale lavender. Gilt titles outlined in black to spine and cover. Printed on heavy coated stock.

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Place

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North America

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Notes

Note variant binding of 1927 printing with sky stamped in pink. (2015.7.249)