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 Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Local note | SCI-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 note | 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." |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Huntington Library. |
| General note | Sabin no. 39699. |
| References | RLIN, CTRG94-B5499 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |