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Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.

Textiles: various workers laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving by B. Cole, 1753.

Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering mulberry leaves. Engraving.

Three scenes relating to hydrotherapy and one concerning the production of silk. Pen drawing by J. Gülick.

Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering the empty silk cocoons. Engraving.

Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering the eggs. Engraving.

Textiles: silk manufacture in China, feeding the silkworms. Engraving.

Silkworms: thirteen figures showing silkworms at various stages of development, from egg and caterpillar, to pupa and moth. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.

A compendious account of the whole art of breeding, nursing, and right ordering of the silk-worm. Illustrated with figures engraven on Copper: Whereon is curiously exhibited the whole Management of this Profitable Insect.

L'art de faire éclorre et d'élever les vers a soie, : tel qu'on le pratique dans le Levant.

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Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering the empty silk cocoons. Engraving.

A compendious account of the whole art of breeding, nursing, and right ordering of the silk-worm. Illustrated with figures engraven on Copper: Whereon is curiously exhibited the whole Management of this Profitable Insect.

Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering mulberry leaves. Engraving.

Textiles: various workers laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving by B. Cole, 1753.

L'art de faire éclorre et d'élever les vers a soie, : tel qu'on le pratique dans le Levant.