Date: 1916
Creator: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924.
Type: Book
Description:Special volumes in Hough's American woods series, "covering the fifty kinds of American woods which the U.S. Census returns report to have been most largely manufactured into lumber during the period of one year--1912"--Preface to volume 1.
Each part consists of a text volume and 25 single leaves with each leaf containing three sections (transverse, radial, and tangential) of a single tree mounted in frames to allow viewing against light. Volume and loose leaves in chemise and slipcase.
Extent: 14 volumes : illustrations, plates of mounted sections, samples ; 26 cm.