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1825 The Art of Rearing Silk-Worms
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Description
First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Rebound, Scarce
The scarce first English language translation of this work.
Illustrated with one engraved plate, two folding engraved plates, and two folding text tables. Collated, complete.
Dandolo offers a guide to cultivating silk worms, with discussion of caterpillars, suitable food for silk worms, hatching the worms, rearing during their seven ages of growth, and the cultivation of their silk.
Rebound, with endpapers renewed.
With the bookplate of English cleric, academic, theologian and biographer George D'Oyly to the front pastedown.
The work of Count Vincenzo Dandolo, an Italian chemist and agriculturist.
Condition
Rebound in cloth, with endpapers renewed, and label laid down to back strip. Externally, fine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Title page a touch age toned with the odd spot, with pages otherwise clean and bright.
Very Good Indeed
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