Pub. Virgilii Maronis Georgicorum Libri Quatuour. The Geogicks of Virgil,with an English Translation and Notes by John Martyn, F.R.S., Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge.
London: Printed for the Editor, by Richard Reily, in Little-Britain. MDCCXLI [1751].
First Edition. Quarto, later half calf with marbled boards and endpapers; pp. xviii + 404 + 3 (remarks) + (10)(index); 8 line-engraved plates in original colour, 5 mezzotint botanical plates printed in colours, as called for. Some light spotting.
A translation and commentary on Virgil's Georgics (i.e. 'Agricultural things') by the botanist John Martyn (1699-1768). The line engravings are: two illustrations of ploughs; a pair of world hemispheres; a northern hemisphere celestial map (the south unknown to Virgil); a map of the Morea and a leaf of a plain tree (drawing coparisons of the shape); and a compass rose. The five mezzotint botanicals are: The Citron tree; The Olive-tree; Cirinthe; Hiacinthus Poeticus; & Aster Atticus. These botanicals are believed to be drawn by Jacob van Huysum (c.1687-1740, illustrator of Martyn's earlier work 'Historia Plantarum Rariorum') and engraved by Elisha Kirkhall. A rare Map item.
Loundes: 517.
[Ref: 31777] £820.00
First Edition. Quarto, later half calf with marbled boards and endpapers; pp. xviii + 404 + 3 (remarks) + (10)(index); 8 line-engraved plates in original colour, 5 mezzotint botanical plates printed in colours, as called for. Some light spotting.
A translation and commentary on Virgil's Georgics (i.e. 'Agricultural things') by the botanist John Martyn (1699-1768). The line engravings are: two illustrations of ploughs; a pair of world hemispheres; a northern hemisphere celestial map (the south unknown to Virgil); a map of the Morea and a leaf of a plain tree (drawing coparisons of the shape); and a compass rose. The five mezzotint botanicals are: The Citron tree; The Olive-tree; Cirinthe; Hiacinthus Poeticus; & Aster Atticus. These botanicals are believed to be drawn by Jacob van Huysum (c.1687-1740, illustrator of Martyn's earlier work 'Historia Plantarum Rariorum') and engraved by Elisha Kirkhall. A rare Map item.
Loundes: 517.
[Ref: 31777] £820.00