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100 1 $aHartlib, Samuel,$d-1662.
240 10 $aGlory be to God on high, peace on earth, good will amongst men. 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.
245 14 $aThe reformed Virginian silk-worm, or, A rare and new discovery of a speedy way, and easie means, found out by a young lady in England, she having made full proof thereof in May, anno 1652. For the feeding of silk-worms in the woods, on the mulberry-tree-leaves in Virginia: who after fourty dayes time, present their most rich golden-coloured silken fleece, to the instant wonderful enriching of all the planters there, requiring from them neither cost, labour, or hindrance in any of their other emploments [sic] whatsoever. And also to the good hopes, that the Indians, seeing and finding that there is neither art, skill, or pains in the thing: they will readily set upon it, being by the benefit thereof inabled to buy of the English (in way of truck for their silk-bottoms) all those things that they most desire.
246 30 $aReformed Virginian silk-worm.
246 3 $aReformed Virginian silk worm.
246 30 $aRare and new discovery of a speedy way, and easie means, found out by a young lady in England, she having made full proof thereof in May, anno 1652.
260 $aLondon :$bprinted by John Streater, for Giles Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle at the west end of Pauls,$c1655.
300 $a[4], 40 p. ;$c20 cm. (4to)
500 $aFirst printed under title: Glory be to God on high, peace on earth, good will amongst men. 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, London, 1652.
500 $a"To the reader", p. [3-4], 1st count, signed: Samuel Hartlib.
500 $aAlso issued as part of the author's The reformed common-wealth of bees, London, 1655 (Wing H997)
500 $a"To the reader", p. [3-4], 1st count, p. 1-6, 2nd count, "The fashion of the botome", p. [18], 2nd count, "A comparison between the gain and labor of tobacco and silk", p. 39, 2nd count, and "Thus learned Bartas upon this noble and admirable creature", a verse by Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas: p. [40], 2nd count, are reprinted from the author's "Glory be to God on high, peace on earth, good will amongst men. 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", first printed London, 1652 (Wing H988)
500 $a"Instructions for the increase and planting of mulberry-trees": p. 1-6, 2nd count. This is a translation by William Stallenge of "Memoires et instructions pour l'establissement des meuriers, & art de faire la soye en France" by Jean-Baptiste Letellier, first printed in England in 1609 with title: Instructions for the increasing of mulberie trees, and the breeding of silke-wormes (STC 23138)
500 $a"A loving advertisement to all the ingenious gentlemen-planters in Virginia now upon the designe of silk. By V.F.", p. 19-27, 2nd count, can be attributed to Virginia Farrer. Cf. 1652 edition.
500 $aIncludes other letters and testimonies from other planters including John Ferrar on p. 28-32, 2nd count.
500 $a"Upon the most noble, Virginian natural silk-worm ...", p. 33-38, 2nd count, is a poem, signed on p. 38: I.F. [i.e. John Ferrar]
500 $a"A comparison between the gain and labor of tobacco and silk", p. 39, 2nd count, has separate caption title.
500 $a"Thus learned Bartas upon this noble and admirable creature", a verse by Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas: p. [40], 2nd count.
500 $aSignatures: A-E⁴ (A1 verso blank) F²
500 $aTitle printed within ornamental border; woodcut head pieces; initials.
510 4 $aChurch, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America,$c539.
510 4 $aWing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994),$cH1000.
510 4 $aBibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island$cII:450.
510 4 $aEuropean Americana$c655/94.
510 4 $aEnglish short title catalogue$cR177863.
541 $cPurchase;$dbetween 1853 and 1854;$e01683.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: p. 39-40, torn and mutilated and mounted on paper with some loss of text.
650 0 $aSilkworms$zVirginia.
650 0 $aMulberry$zVirginia.
650 0 $aSericulture$zVirginia.
650 0 $aSilkworms.
650 0 $aSilkworms$vPoetry.
650 0 $aMulberry.
650 0 $aSericulture.
653 $aImprint 1655.
700 1 $aStallenge, William.
700 1 $aLetellier, Jean-Baptiste.$tMemoires et instructions pour l'establissement des meuriers, & art de faire la soye en France.$lEnglish.
700 1 $aFarrer, Virginia,$d1628-1668.
700 1 $aFerrar, John,$d1590?-1657.
700 1 $aDu Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.
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