Author: WALLACE, ALEXANDER:
Title: Report on the Culture of the Japanese Silkworm, Bombyx Yama-Mai, in 1867-68, in England. Colchester, Benham and Harrison, 1869.
Description: . Pp. 64. Original printed wrappers. First edition. An account of the cultivation of the Japanese oak-feeding silk moth "Bombyx Yama-Mai" (Antheraea yamamai) in England. A moth that has been cultivated in Japan for more than 1000 years. The first eggs of this species came to Europe in 1861 when they were introduced to France by Édouard Guérin-Méneville.

Keywords: East Asia, silk, siden, soie, japan, japon, japanese, england, english, silk production, silk worms, bombay yama mai, textiles, textile


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