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 ....

Author/creator Hartlib, Samuel
Format Electronic
Publication Info[London] : Printed for Richard Wodenothe ..., 1652.
Description[15], 12, [7] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map
Supplemental ContentGale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Subjects

SeriesSabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Local noteSCI-220
General note"To the reader" signed: Samuel Hartlib.
General note"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.
General noteIncludes 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."
General noteReproduction of original from Huntington Library.
General noteSabin no. 39699.
References RLIN, CTRG94-B5499
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.