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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

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1607.
Call number: 56687
Creator: Serres, Olivier de (1539-1619)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (4to)
Associated people: Geffe, Nicholas.
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