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6909One double-page & 23 full-page woodcut illus. 33 leaves. 8vo orig. patterned wrappers wrappers a little soiled block-printed title label on upper cover label a little defective & soiled. Kyoto: Tawaraya Riemon et al. 1859. First edition and very rare; WorldCat lists no copies. This was one of the standard textbooks on sericulture of the period published at a time when Japan was just beginning to trade with the rest of the world the port of Yokohama opened in the same year as the publication of our book. Both raw silk and finished fabrics quickly became extremely important exports. The beginning of the book gives a history of sericulture in Japan from the second century B.C. when Chinese techniques were imported. The text describes all the steps of sericulture from growing mulberry trees to the finished silk product. The fine woodcuts vividly depict many of the processes. The first woodcut is double-page and depicts an elaborate ritual depicting the Emperor giving silkworm cocoons to his subjects. The remainder of the woodcuts all full-page depict the steps in sericulture: incubation and rearing of worms cocoons selection of eggs for reproduction techniques of keeping rooms warm enough to enhance hatching the mulberry tree and its cultivation feeding the silkworms with mulberry leaves tools making the silk etc. etc. Fine copy. unknown books
1828WRCAM16811Washington 1828. 220pp. plus six engraved plates two folding one of them in color and folding table. Dbd. Color plate loosely laid in closed tears at folds. Some staining and foxing. Good. A complete treatise on silk culture based largely on the work of Count Dandolo of Italy containing practical directions on the cultivation of silk worms a section on diseases of silk worms and explanations of various silk related machinery with plates of patented silk looms. The handsome color plate depicts the different life stages of the silk worm. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 36503. unknown books