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The American Woods

Romeyn Beck Hough

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Description:In 1888, Romeyn Beck Hough began publishing The American Woods: exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text (American Woods), a multi-volume set containing paper-thin wood samples. The origin of the American Woods is as unique as its content. Hough wrote and published this extraordinary set over a 25-year period using specimens he collected himself with a specialized slicer he developed and patented in 1886. As the MARC record denotes, each case contains a booklet of descriptive text and at least 25 plates in its 14 volumes, covering 354 species with 1,056 wood samples. Each tree is described by its botany, habitat, physical properties, uses, and medicinal properties with tree names in five languages. The plates, printed in gold on black paper over cardboard, have cutouts for the mounted wood samples, showing transverse, radial, and tangential sections. Originally planned as a 15-volume set, the first 13 volumes were published between 1888 and 1913 in three editions. In 1928, his daughter, Marjorie Galloway Hough, completed the 14th and final volume using her father's prepared samples and field notes. He intended to include all the important woods in North America and covered the Northern Atlantic states, the Middle West, Canada, the Pacific Slope, and the Gulf states in the completed volumes (Bernier 1916, p. 286). Some trees available at the time are now very rare, making this comprehensive American dendrological monograph even more precious.--Web site.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The American Woods. To get started finding The American Woods, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 150

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Release: 1888

ISBN: EooDsNlgP3QC

Description: In 1888, Romeyn Beck Hough began publishing The American Woods: exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text (American Woods), a multi-volume set containing paper-thin wood samples. The origin of the American Woods is as unique as its content. Hough wrote and published this extraordinary set over a 25-year period using specimens he collected himself with a specialized slicer he developed and patented in 1886. As the MARC record denotes, each case contains a booklet of descriptive text and at least 25 plates in its 14 volumes, covering 354 species with 1,056 wood samples. Each tree is described by its botany, habitat, physical properties, uses, and medicinal properties with tree names in five languages. The plates, printed in gold on black paper over cardboard, have cutouts for the mounted wood samples, showing transverse, radial, and tangential sections. Originally planned as a 15-volume set, the first 13 volumes were published between 1888 and 1913 in three editions. In 1928, his daughter, Marjorie Galloway Hough, completed the 14th and final volume using her father's prepared samples and field notes. He intended to include all the important woods in North America and covered the Northern Atlantic states, the Middle West, Canada, the Pacific Slope, and the Gulf states in the completed volumes (Bernier 1916, p. 286). Some trees available at the time are now very rare, making this comprehensive American dendrological monograph even more precious.--Web site.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The American Woods. To get started finding The American Woods, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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