DAME, LORIN LOW - Typical elms and other trees of Massachusetts. Introductory chapter by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Descriptive text by Lorin L. Dame.
Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1890, First Edition. Hard Cover, 36 cm. 89 p. 58 pl. Ill.: Plates by Henry Brooks, reproduced by the photogelatine process.. Fine./No Jacket.¶ An extraordinarily beautiful book chronicling a wonder of our country now gone. The elms of the U.S.A. are gone, because of the Elm blight. Each tree is measured and its statistics given. If anything is known about the age and origin of the tree it is also given. Meant primarily for botanists, it remains scarce. Carroll Wilson calls the book itself "scarce," noting that "Holmes' interest in New England trees and their size, as set forth in The Autocrat and elsewhere, is well known." BAL 9029, NYPL Unnoted, RLIn, 2 Locs. Fine..
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