Figure 3. "A strang story..." Virginia Ferrar's (?) annotations concerning silk production in China in Gerhard Mercator, Atlas; or, A geographicke description of the world (London, 1635), p. 862 (detail). JCB call number Z M533 1635 1-Size
Detail showing "A strang story..."
Janice Neri and Danielle Skeehan, "The Mystery of the Silk Worm: Conversations in the Reading Room and Beyond," I Found it at the JCB, Online Journal of the John Carter Brown Library, August 2012. |