• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The perfect vse of silk-vvormes, and their benefit : With the exact planting, and artificiall handling of mulberrie trees whereby to nourish them, and the figures to know how to feede the wormes, and to winde off the silke. And the fit maner to prepare the barke of the white mulberrie to make fine linnen and other workes thereof. Done out of the French originall of D'Oliuier de Serres Lord of Pradel into English, by Nicholas Geffe Esquier. With an annexed discourse of his owne, of the meanes and sufficiencie of England for to haue abundance of fine silke by feeding of silke-wormes within the same; as by apparent proofes by him made and continued appeareth. For the generall vse and vniuersall benefit of all those his countrey men which embrace them. Neuer the like yet here discouered by any
  • Work titles: Theatre d'agriculture et mesnage des champs
  • Contributor: Serres, Olivier de [Author]; Geffe, Nicholas [Other]
  • Published: At London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, and are to be sold by Richard Sergier and Christopher Purset, with the assignment of William Stallenge, 1607
    Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource ([8], 81 [i.e. 97], [5], 14, [4] p); ill. (woodcuts)
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Sericulture Early works to 1800
  • Place of reproduction: Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 723:23)
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  • Footnote: STC (2nd ed.), 22249
    "A discourse of his ovvne" by Nicholas Geffe has separate divisional title and pagination; register is continuous
    Verso of title page blank. Variant: with royal arms on verso
    Only title page of "A discourse of his owne" filmed
    P. 97 misnumbered 81
    An imprint variant of STC 22249.3
    Reproduction of the original in the British Library
    A translation of part 5, chapter 15 of: Le theatre d'agriculture et mesnage des champs
    At foot of title: Cum privilegio
    With a final leaf bearing "To the reader" on recto and errata on verso; the last leaf is blank
  • Description: eebo-0018