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Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Silkworm Eggs' pox
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Prince Genji, elegantly attired in modern dress is seated with a young woman who holds his sword; in the room beind are silkworm feeding trays. Colour woodcut by Fusatane, 1865.
Fusatane (Utagawa Seima), active 1849-1870.Date: Month 8, 1865Reference: 36789i- Books
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An essay on the culture of silk, and raising white mulberry trees, the leaves of which are the only proper food of the silk-worm. By a citizen of Philadelphia.
Citizen of Philadelphia, active 1790.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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Del mal del segno, calcinaccio o moscardino : malattia che affligge i bachi da seta e sul modo di liberarne le bigattaje anche le più infestate / opera del dottore Agostino Bassi.
Bassi, Agostino, 1773-1856.Date: 1835-36- Books
Valerii Pereleshin : life of a silkworm / Olga Bakich.
Bakich, Olʹga MikhaĭlovnaDate: [2015]- Archives and manuscripts
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Diploma in silkworm breeding from the University of Milan
Date: Mar 1930Reference: UGC 198/1/1/2/4Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Pictures
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Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering the empty silk cocoons. Engraving.
Reference: 44099i- Books
Recherches sur l'histoire naturelle chez les Arabes / [Jean Jacques Clément-Mullet].
Clément-Mullet, Jean Jacques, 1796-approximately 1856.Date: 1856- Books
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A topographical description of the western territory of North America: containing a succinct account of its soil, climate, natural history, population, agriculture, manners, and customs. With an ample Description of the several Divisions into which that Country is partitioned. To which are added, I. The discovery, settlement, and present state of Kentucky; with an Essay towards the Topography and Natural History of that important Country, by J. Filson. Also the Minutes of the Piankashaw Council, 1784. II. An account of the Indian nations inhabiting within the Limits of the XIII States; their Manners and Customs; and Reflections on their Origin. III. The Culture of Indian Corn, Hemp, Flax, Hops, Tobacco, Indigo, Cotton, Senega Root, Esquine, Madder, Jalap, Potatoes, Silkworms, Persimmon, various Kinds of Grapes, Berries, and Nuts, the Candleberry Myrtle, Sumach, Coffee, and other Particulars in the vegetable Kingdom. IV. Observations on the ancient Works, the native Inhabitants of the Western Country, &c. by Major Jonathan Heart. V. Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West Florida, containing a great Variety of interesting Particulars, by Mr. Thomas Hutchins. VI. Account of the Soil, growing Timber, and other Productions of several Lands, particularly the Genesee Tract, lately located, and now in the Progress of being settled. Vii. Remarks for the Information of those who wish to become Settlers in America, by Dr. Franklin. Viii. Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, by Mr. Tho. Hutchins. IX. Mr. Patrick Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois River, &c. X. Description of the State of Tenasee, and of the South-Western Territory, with the Constitution of Tenasee established 1796. XI. An Act for establishing Knoxville. XII. Treaty concluded between the United States of America and the Crown of Spain, for the free Navigation of the Mississippi. XIII. Plan of Association of the North American Land Company, &c. By Gilbert Imlay , A Captain in the American Army during the War, and Commissioner for laying out Lands in the Back Settlements. Illustrated with correct maps of the Western Territory of North America; of the State of Kentucky, as divided into Counties, from actual Surveys by Ehhu Barker; a Map of the Tenasee Government; and a Plan of the Rapids of the Ohio.
Imlay, Gilbert, 1754?-1828.Date: 1797- Pictures
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A silkworm (Phaloena mori) shown as imago, larva, pupa and egg. Etching by M. Griffith.
Reference: 40446i- Books
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Some hints intended to promote the culture of silk worms in Ireland. Addressed to the Dublin Society by the Rev. Samuel Pullein, A.M.
Pullein, Samuel, active 1734-1760.Date: 1750- Books
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Dictionaire oeconomique: or, the family dictionary. Containing, the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved Remedies for most Distempers of the Body of Man, Cattle and other Creatures, and the best Means for attaining long Life. The most advantageous Ways of Breeding, Feeding and Ordering of Domestick Animals, as Horses, Kine, Sheep, Swine, Poultry, Bees, Silkworms, &c. The different Kinds of Nets, Snares and Engines, for taking most Sorts of Fish, Birds, and other Game. Great Variety of Rules, Directions, and new Discoveries, relating to Gardening, Husbandry, Soils and Manures of all Sorts: The Planting and Culture of Vines, Fruit-Trees, Forest-Trees, Underwoods, Shrubs, Flowers, and their several Uses: The Knowledge of Foreign Drugs, Dies, Domestick and Exotick Plants and Herbs, with their specifick Qualities and medicinal Virtues. The best and cheapest Ways of providing and improving all manner of Meats and Drinks; of preparing several Sorts of Wines, Waters and Liquors for every Season, both by Distillation and otherwise: Of preserving all kind of Fruits as well dry as liquid, and making divers Sweetmeats and Works of Sugar, and other profitable Curiosities, both in the Confectionary and Culinary Arts of Housewifery. Means of making the most Advantages of the Manufactures of Soap, Starch, Spinning, Cotton, Thread, &c. The Methods to take or destroy Vermin, and other Animals injurious to Gardening, Husbandry, and rural Oeconomy; with a Description of Garden and other Country Tools and Utensils. An Account of the several Weights, Measures, &c. of Metals and Minerals, with their Preparations and Uses. All sorts of rural sports and exercises, conducing to the Benefit and innocent Enjoyments of Life; as also Painting in Miniature, and divers other Arts and Ternis of Art explain'd, for the Entertainment and Amusement of Gentlemen, Ladies, &c. The whole illustrated throughout with very great Variety of Figures, for the readier understanding and practising of those things to which they belong. Done into English from the second edition, lately printed at Paris, in two Volumes, Folio, written by M Chomell. With considerable alterations and improvements. Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. In two volumes. Vol. I. From A - to - H.
Chomel, Noel, 1632-1712.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Handbook of the collection illustrative of the wild silks of India : in the Indian section of the South Kensington Museum, with a catalogue of the collection and numerous illustrations / by Thomas Wardle.
Wardle, Thomas, Sir, 1831-1909.Date: 1881- Pictures
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Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering the eggs. Engraving.
Reference: 44096i- Pictures
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Textiles: women in a garden sorting silkworm eggs for incubation. Engraving by B. Cole, 1749.
Date: 1749Reference: 43589i- Pictures
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Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.
Date: 1750Reference: 44126i- Books
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Thoughts on the different kinds of food given to young silk worms, and the possibility of their being brought to perfection in the climate of England; Founded on experiemnts made near the metropolis. By S. Bertezen.
Bertezen, Salvatore, active 1780-1792.Date: 1789- Pictures
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Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering mulberry leaves. Engraving.
Reference: 44097i- Books
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Miscellaneous communications, published by James Anderson, M.D. and A.M. Physician General. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh-Of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia-And Member of the Society of Planters, of St Helena.
Anderson, James, 1738-1809.Date: [1795]- Books
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Proposals for publishing by subscription, In one large Octavo Volume, the Letters and Correspondence of James Anderson, Esq. on various subjects: More particularly on the Cultivation of the Nopal, and mode of Treatment of the Cochineal Insect, and Silk Worm. Price Five Pagodas. Those Gentlemen who wish to subscribe, are requested to send their Names to the Printers of the Madras Gazette.
Anderson, James, 1738-1809.Date: 1799?]- Books
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Letters, &c.
Anderson, James, 1738-1809.Date: 1796.]- Pictures
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Three scenes relating to hydrotherapy and one concerning the production of silk. Pen drawing by J. Gülick.
Gülick, John.Reference: 18239i- Pictures
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Court ladies producing silk under the supervision of the empress; their tasks include preparing eggs, chopping mulberry leaves, feeding caterpillars and unwinding cocoons. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki II, 1883.
Utagawa, Kuniaki, 1835-1888.Date: 1883Reference: 36756i- Books
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The ailant silkworm : observations on its habit, management, food, and value : made during the introduction, naturalization, and rearing of the first stock in Queensland and New South Wales, and affording some elementary information for the benefit of persons contemplating the commercial growth of ailant cocoons in Australia / contributed by Charles Brady.
Brady, Charles.Date: 1868- Archives and manuscripts
Strunnikov Paper
Date: October 1974-January 1975Reference: PP/MIA/E/4/33Part of: Professor Michael Ashburner: archives