Thirty-eight Plates – Thomas Martyn – 1799 | Botanical Linnaean Plates

Thomas Martyn

Thirty-eight plates – thomas martyn – 1799 | botanical linnaean plates | martyn’s 1799 volume on linnaean botany includes 38 hand-colored plates with text, issued for instructional use. Includes somerville and hayhurst bookplates.

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Martyn’s 1799 volume on Linnaean botany includes 38 hand-colored plates with text, issued for instructional use. Includes Somerville and Hayhurst bookplates.

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Thirty Eight Plates with Explanations by Thomas Martyn is a series of illustrations that were published to supplement Carl Linnaeus’s famous System of Vegetables. These illustrations, each with explanation, depict flowers and their stems, leaves, seeds, and petals. Each of the 38 plates is included and is beautifully bound in gilt-leather binding with marbled boards.

 

Bibliographic Details

  • Title: Thirty-eight plates, with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnæus’s System of vegetables
  • Author(s): Thomas Martyn
  • Illustrator(s): Thomas Martyn
  • Contributor(s): Carl Linnaeus
  • Publisher: London: Printed for J. White
  • Edition: 1799 edition.
  • Format: (8vo), single volume
  • Binding: Full leather, marbled boards
  • Size:  8.75 in x 5.5 in (22.5 cm x 14 cm)
  • Collation: vi, [2], 72 pp
  • Illustrations: 38 hand-colored botanical plates
  • Contents Include:
    • Thirty-eight hand-colored plates
    • Commentary on Linnaeus ‘Vegetables’
    • Prefatory material on classification methods
  • Provenance:
    • Bookplate – Sir Marcus Somerville: 4th Baronet of Somerville, in Ireland
    • Robert J. Hayhurst

 

Condition:

Very Good. Binding is tight with marbled boards and a gilt-decorated spine. Leather shows minor wear along joints and corners. Pages are clean, with all 38 plates present and well-preserved.

 

Why Collect This?

  • botanical teaching supplement to Linnaeus
  • Complete with all 38 original hand-colored plates
  • Owned by Irish noble

 

Item Number: #29096

Categories

Natural History

Botany, Gardening, & Herbals

European History

Authors

Thomas Martyn

Printing Date

18th Century

Language

English

Binding

Leather

Book Condition

Very Good

Collation

Complete

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