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Abbé (Pierre-Augustin) Boissier de Sauvages, Directions for the breeding and management of silk-worms, 1770

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

N.d.

Primary Source Reference:

Descriptive Catalogue of the Du SimitièrePapers in the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1940), p. 165, 33.7

Author/Composer:

Boissier de Sauvages, abbé (Pierre-Augustin), 1710-1795

Notes:

Du Simitière's copy was sold by LCP at Parke-Bernet 1959; LCP has another copy.

Title Information:

Directions for the breeding and management of silk-worms. /Extracted from the treatises of the Abbé Boissier de Sauvages, and Pullein. ; With a preface, giving some account of the rise and progress of the scheme for encouraging the culture of silk, in Pennsylvania, and the adjacent colonies

Imprint Information:

Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, and Isaac Collins, M,DCC,LXX. [1770]

Repository:

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800), No. 11574