Directions for the breeding and management of silk-worms : extracted from the treatises of the Abbé Boissier de Sauvages, and Pullein : with a preface, giving some account of the rise and progress of the scheme for encouraging the culture of silk, in Pennsylvania, and the adjacent colonies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Odell, Jonathan, 1737-1818.

Contributor:

Crukshank, Joseph, 1746?-1836, printer.

Collins, Isaac, 1746-1817, printer.

Boissier de Sauvages, abbé (Pierre-Augustin), 1710-1795.

Pullein, Samuel, active 1734-1760.

Joseph Crukshank and Isaac Collins (Firm)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Silkworms--Early works to 1800.

Silkworms.

Physical Description:

xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 32 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

k.s. amam heen flhi (3) 1770 (R)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Crukshank and Isaac Collins, MDCCLXX [1770]

Notes:

Sauvages' treatise translated and epitomized by Jonathan Odell. Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: [A]⁴ 2B⁴ B-E⁴.

Cited in:

Evans 11574

ESTC W30781

Related Work:

Boissier de Sauvages, abbé (Pierre-Augustin), 1710-1795. Art d'élever les vers à soie.

Pullein, Samuel, active 1734-1760. Culture of silk.

OCLC:

4166067