Plates Prepared Between the Years 1849 and 1859, to Accompany a Report on the Forest Trees of North America (Limited to 300 copies)
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution, 1891. Limited Edition. Quarto. After Gray's death, the 23 plates were thought to have been lost but had been carelessly stored in his sprawling house. These surviving plates (total in all the few known complete copies) were expertly drawn by Isaac Sprague. They have survived as..... More