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Virgil Opera, varietate lectionis et perpetua adnotatione illustrata
a C. G. Heyne [Works, edited by Christof Gottlieb Heyne]. London: T. Payne et al., 1793. Third edition. Four volumes (without the frontispiece and engraved vignettes) in contemporary full leather, gilt decoration, titles. A good deal of superficial flaking, one volume number label (Vol. I) missing from spine. Internally tight and clean throughout. The speckled leather and bit of gilt not withstanding, a rather plain set, but with the bookplates and from the library of Sir William Gregory, “The Right Hon.ble W. H. Gregory, K.C. M.G., Coole Park, Gort, Ireland”, husband of Lady Augusta Gregory (playwright for the Irish National Theatre and confidante of W.B. Yeats, among others). See, for example, Yeats’ poetry collection The Wild Swans at Coole (1917).
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850.00 USD
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[Virgil] Martyn, Thomas. The Bucolicks of Virgil with an English Translation and Notes
London: T. Osborne, 1749. Second edition (xcix, 390, 7 pp., index). Folding frontis, 2 folding maps, two folding copperplate engravings (Pan, lilies); full decorative leather, five raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Martyn’s translation of Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolicorum Eclogae Decem. Repaired joints, minor repairs to folds of two plates. A handsome copy of this important work by the Cambridge Professor of Botany.
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425.00 USD
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[Virgil] Martin, John The Georgics of Virgil with an English Translation and Notes by John Martyn.
London: T. Osborn, 1746. Second edition (xvi, adverts., 487,4, index). Tall octavo in full leather (professionally refurbished original calf) with nine engraved copperplate illustrations, two folding, by Cole including that of a plough, the world (as known in the mid- eighteenth century), the constellations, plane and olive trees, and hyacinthus poeticus (which resembles the turk’s head lily). With the bookplate of [Canon] A. F. Smethurst. The greater part of each page in Martyn’s translation is devoted to a commentary on perhaps a half-dozen lines of Virgil’s text, and much of that commentary comprises comparisons between and among translations as, for example, between those of Dryden and Trapp. John Martin (1699- 1768), professor of Botany at Cambridge, wrote towards the end of a time when the study of natural history in all its branches was pre-occupied with the translation and exegesis of the works of natural history originating in classical antiquity, among which Virgil’s were paramount. Martyn also translated Virgil’s Bucolics and Tournefort’s Histoire des Plantes and was a founder of the Botanical Society of London. Bright, clean illustrations, tailpieces, and text.
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255.00 USD
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