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VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Georgicorum [Bucolicorum] libri quatuor [decem]. The Georgicks [Bucolicks]... with an English Translation and Notes by
VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Georgicorum [Bucolicorum] libri quatuor [decem]. The Georgicks [Bucolicks]... with an English Translation and Notes by John Martyn, F.R.S., Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge. Together, 2 volumes, with 8 hand-colored engravings and 5 color-printed botanical mezzotints in the first work, and 3 uncolored engraved plates and 2 folding maps in the second. 4to, contemporary calf gilt with artless modern red leather lettering pieces, spine ends worn, joints cracked or starting; some foxing on text leaves in first volume, plates lightly offset but otherwise generally clean. London: Richard Riley, 1741; T. Osborne, 1749
- Notes: first martyn edition. "This is the botanist's Vergil, pre-Linnaean, and copious in its annotation... The notes discuss in considerable detail the proper identification of the plants mentioned by the poet... It was one of the works on which the reputation of John Martyn rested"--Hunt 517 (Georgics only). With the signatures of Michael Wodhull dated 20 March 1765.
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