Resultados da Pesquisa: a manual containing information respecting the por cobb j h

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Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1839. Hardcover. 12mo; Fair+; Hardcover; Spine, brown without print; Boards in brown cloth with gold print, wear to spine caps and corners, peripheral toning, slight stains/shelfwear; Text block has spotting to edges, foxing to endpapers, penciled note on rear pastedown, occasional foxing within, small tear to fore edge of rear flyleaf, else clean and tight; xii, 162 pages, frontispieces (2 folded), illustrated (b&w). 1350465. FP New Rockville Stock.

Boston: Carter, Hendee and Co., 1833. 98 pp, 7 3/16" H. Brown cloth spine, paper covered boards. Three plates - the frontispiece is a hand-coloured illustration of mulberry leaves, labeled Plate II. Plate I, facing page 45, is a hand-coloured depiction of the life cycle of the silkworm. Plate III, facing page 87, gives diagrams of three silk reels in b&w. Contents: Introduction; Advertisement to this Edition; Preface; Part I: Culture of the Mulberry Tree; Part II: On Rearing Silk Worms; Part III: Reeling and Manufacturing Silk; Appendix: Short Historical Account of the Efforts of Silk Culture in this country; Letter: From Peter S. Du Ponceau to the Hon. Andrew Stevenson, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States. From the title page: "Published by direction of his Excellency Gov. Lincoln, agreeably to a resolve of the Commonwealth." Moderate edge wear, browning and soiling from handling on boards; waviness and browning to edges of text block; browning to… Ler mais

Boston: Carter, Hendee and Babcock, 1831. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Rear Room Left Lower Brown paper covered boards. [3]+iv-x+[1]+12-68p,illus,colorThree plates two in color. Owners name ink on Tp From the estate of Levi Lincoln early governor of Mass. and attorney general to Thomas Jefferson Interior very good 1" of paper roughness top left conrer front board.Same on rear.Signed by Lincoln on fep and To

Boston, Massachusetts: Carter, Hendee and Co., 1833. 98 pages; with a color frontispiece of the leaves of the mulberry tree, a color plate of the silkworm and moth and various growth stages; and a black & white plate of various reels for carding the silk fibers, including J.H. Cobb's. This 'New Edition' was published as the result of the Legislature of Massachusetts requesting more copies, and the Congress of the U.S. also, after the initial run in 1831. Front endpapers with the small bookplate ex-libris of Parker Cleaveland and his signature opposite; laid-in the text are a couple of loose scrap-papers also in a 19th century hand with further identification of the book's plates. Parker Cleaveland (1780 - 1858) Bowdoin College educator and author of the first American textbook on mineralogy, whose "... life, correspondence, and works represent a window on American and European intellectual currents in the early nineteenth century, as well as offering insight on the maturing of American science and… Ler mais

Boston: Carter, Hendee, and Babcock, 1831. First edition. Three plates, two hand-colored. x, [11]-68 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original printed cloth-backed boards. Some scattered foxing, else Very Good. Ex-library, with bookplate and pocket, markings. First edition. Three plates, two hand-colored. x, [11]-68 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. American Imprints 6567; Sabin 13847