Essays on American Silk, and the Best Means of Rendering It a Source of Individual and National Wealth. With directions to farmers for raising silk worms.

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  • Philadephia: John Grigg, 1830
By D'HOMERGUE, John, and Peter Duponceau
Philadephia: John Grigg, 1830. Book. 8vo, original printed stiff wrappers. Pp. xxii, 120, [1]; uncut. Bookplate. A very fine copy. First edition, a series of essays by D'Homergue, with a long preface by Duponceau, both of whom led the movement to establish an American silk industry. Uncommon in this condition. Rink 1729; AI 1156.; Sabin 32731..

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Essays on American Silk, and the Best Means of Rendering It a Source of Individual and National Wealth. With directions to farmers for raising silk worms.

Author

D'HOMERGUE, John, and Peter Duponceau

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Publisher

John Grigg: Philadephia

Date

1830


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