The Georgics of Virgil, with an English translation [Pub. Virgilii Maronis Georgicum Libri Quatuor]
by Martyn, John
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
Dublin: John Exshaw, 1778. Illustrated with three folding engraved maps and ten engraved plates (some folding), octavo, pp xvi, 118; 128; 132; 95; [13], a few folded corners, a little used and age-toned internally with a few paper imperfections and marks, the front endpaper slightly marked and lacking a corner, contemporary calf sound but rather worn at the edges, lacking tiny pieces at the head and tail of the spine, the spine dull and lacking its label, the joints cracking and peeling. [Of great value for the extensive notes on agriculture, botany, medicine and herbalism. Martyn [1699-1768] was born in London, the son of a merchant. He attended a school in the vicinity of his home, and when he turned 16, worked for his father, intending to follow a business career. He married Marie Anne Fonnereau, daughter of Claude Fonnereau, a Huguenot refugee who had settled in England and became a successful merchant. He abandoned this idea in favour of medical and botanical studies. His interest in botany came from his acquaintance with an apothecary, John Wilmer, and Dr. Patrick Blair, a surgeon-apothecary from Dundee who practiced in London. Martyn gave some botanical lectures in London in 1721 and 1726, and in 1727 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Martyn was one of the founders (with Johann Jacob Dillenius and others) and the secretary of a botanical society which met for a few years in the Rainbow coffee-house, Watling Street. In 1732 he was appointed Professor of Botany at Cambridge University, but, finding little encouragement and hampered by a lack of equipment, he soon ceased lecturing. He retained his professorship, however, until 1768, when he resigned in favour of his son Thomas. On resigning the botanical chair at Cambridge he presented the university with a number of his botanical specimens and books.]. Full Leather. Good.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Georgics of Virgil, with an English translation [Pub. Virgilii Maronis Georgicum Libri Quatuor]
- Author
- Martyn, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- John Exshaw
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1778
- Bookseller catalogs
- Agriculture; Medicine; History; History of Science; Early works;
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