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VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Georgicorum libri quatuor [Bucolicorum eclogae decem]. The Georgicks [Bucolicks]... with an English Translation and Notes
VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Georgicorum libri quatuor [Bucolicorum eclogae 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 on 6 plates and five color-printed botanical mezzotints in the first work, and uncolored engraved frontispiece and 4 hand-colored plates in the second. 4to, contemporary red morocco gilt, some wear to spine ends, Volume 1 front joint cracked, Volume 2 front cover detached. 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... Perhaps only in the eighteenth century could a scholar have been, at one and the same time, a translator of Vergil and a professor of botany, with a mind seeking out the precise identification of species"--Hunt 517 (original edition of the Georgics only).
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