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Obseruations to be followed, for the making of fit roomes, to keepe silk-wormes in: : as also, for the best manner of planting of mulbery trees, to feed them. Published by authority for the benefit of the noble plantation in Virginia

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1620.
Call number: 3411
Creator: Bonoeil, John(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (4to)
Associated people: Church, Elihu Dwight, (1835-1908,); Lefferts, Marshall C. (1848-1928,)
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