[B., T.]. A Compendious Account of the whole Art of Breeding, Nursing, and the right ordering of the Silk-Worm, London: John Worrall, Olive Payne, Thomas Boreman,and Thomas Game, 1733. Small 4° (222 x 177mm). 5 engraved plates only (of 6), 2 folding of which one is hand-coloured. (Title with long but clean closed tear, outer lower margin stained throughout, plates browned and soiled, with short tears, one folding plate torn in two, title and verso of final leaf heavily soiled, some browning.) Old wrappers (worn). Provenance: J. Winkworth (signature on pastedown). FIRST EDITION. The work is dedicated "To the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Percival, The Right Honourable The Lord Carpenter; and to The rest of the Honourable Gentlemen, The Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America." Not in Sabin. RARE.