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INTRODUCING SILK TO AMERICA
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Eliot, Jared. The Sixth Essay on Field-Husbandry, As it is, or may be ordered in New-England. 12mo, modern cloth; several leaves retipped, a few corners defective with loss to page numbers and the terminal leaf with a few words in manuscript facsimile; early owner's inscription on the title. New Haven: J. Parker and Company, 1759
- Notes: scarce final part to eliot's agricultural essays, this part dealing with mulberry trees and silk production. "[Eliot] bought considerable tracts of land, experimented wisely in their improvement, and embodied his results in an Essay on Field Husbandry in New England, published in six parts at intervals in the years from 1748 to 1759. These for a long time were the most widely read and prized agricultural essays in America. With President Ezra Stiles of Yale College, he introduced silk culture into the colony"--DAB. OCLC locates only 4 copies of this part. Evans 8344; Sabin 22135; Brinley Sale 2059.
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