Catalogue Alphabetique des Arbres et Arbrisseaux, qui croissant naturellement dans les Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale.

Book. Traduit de l'Anglois...avec des notes & observations sur la culture; par M. Lezermes. Paris: Chez Cuchet, 1788. 8vo, modern marbled boards, calf spine gilt, morocco label. Pp. xxii [i.e. xxiv], 278, (2). A fine copy, with the half-title. First French edition of Marshall's landmark work, the first botanical treatise by an American. Marshall's botanic garden was a focal point of early American horticulture, and a major source of American plants for European distribution. The French edition contains additional material by the editor, and is a rarer book than the original. Oak Spring Sylva 18; Hunt 694..