A rare and new discovery of a speedy way and easie means, found out by a young lady in England, she having made full proofe thereof in May, anno 1652, for the feeding of silk-worms in the woods, on the mulberry-tree-leaves in Virginia ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silkworms--Virginia--Early works to 1800.

Silkworms.

Mulberry--Virginia--Early works to 1800.

Mulberry.

Sericulture--Virginia--Early works to 1800.

Sericulture.

Silkworms--Early works to 1800.

Mulberry--Early works to 1800.

Sericulture--Early works to 1800.

Ferrar, Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([15], 12, [7] p., [1] folded leaf of plates ) map

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for Richard Wodenothe ..., 1652.

Notes:

"To the reader" signed: Samuel Hartlib.

"Instructions for the increase and planting of mulberry-trees" p. [5-9], by William Stallenge, first appeared in 1609 with title: Instructions for the increasing of mulberie trees and the breeding of silke-wormes.

Includes several poems, one by Du Bartas on the silkworm, and others addressed to Virginia Ferrar, discoverer of the "speedy way, and easie means ... for the feeding of silk-worms."

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Sabin no. 39699.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG94-B5499

Contains:

Stallenge, William. Instructions for the increasing and planting of mulberie trees and the breeding of silke-wormes.

OCLC:

85789926