A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement and Present State of the Silk Manufacture [The Cabinet Cyclopaedia]
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First American edition. Hardcover. 12mo. XII, 13-276, [4]pp (Publisher's advertisement). Contemporary full calf, with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Illustrated with 28 in-text wood engravings, this volume traces the origine of the silk culture and manufacture to the Chinese. It is divided into four..... More