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Joseph Solomon Ottolenghe, Directions for breeding silk-worms, 1771

Object Status:

Extant

Accession Date:

N.d.

Primary Source Reference:

Descriptive Catalogue of the Du Simitière Papers in the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1940), p. 164, 33.6

Author/Composer:

Ottolenghe, Joseph Solomon, ca. 1711-1775

Notes:

See John C. Van Horne, “Joseph Solomon Ottolenghe (c. 1711-1775): Catechist to the Negroes, Superintendent of the Silk Culture, and Public Servant in Colonial Georgia,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 125 (1981): 398-409.

Title Information:

Directions for breeding silk-worms, extracted from a letter of Joseph Ottolenghe, Esq; late superintendent of the public filature in Georgia

Imprint Information:

Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Third-Street, M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]

Repository:

LCP, Call no. Am 1771 Ott 1589.O.6