Martyn, Thomas. English Entomologist Exhibiting All the Coleopterous Insects found in England; including upwards of 500 different species, the figures of which have never before been given to the public the whole accurately drawn & painted after nature.Linnean System.. Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History, London, 1792.

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Description: Two title pages, four unnumbered pages, 33 pages of text in English interspersed with plates, four unnumbered pages of text in French, 41 pages of text in French, followed by four unnumbered pages containing the General Table [index] in English. Measures 36cm (height). New tan linen (hardcover) binding rebound by Corey, with an elegant dark brown leather spine label with gilt title mostly covering the spine. Illustrated with two engraved title pages, two unnumbered numismatic plates titled "Aurea numismata", and 42 numbered entomological plates, of which the first nine are hand-colored. Plates 11 and 28 are bound-in out of sequence. English text followed by French; English title page; author English professor of botany, Cambridge; plates produced by Martyn's Academy for Drawing and Printing Natural History, Great Marlborough Street, London. Knight, page 9. Thomas Martyn (1735-1825). First Edition, complete.

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Martyn, Thomas. English entomologist (exhibiting) all the coleopterous insects found in England. Including upwards of 500 different species. The figures of which have never before been given to the Public. The whole accurately drawn and painted after nature. Arranged and named according to the Linnean system. London, Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History, 1792.

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Condition: Near Fine

Description: In-folio 35 x 28,5 cm. Reliure plein maroquin cerise, dos à faux nerfs, filets, roulettes et fleurons dorés, dentelles d’encadrement à froid sur les plats, roulettes en coupes et contreplats, tranches dorées, titre, 3-33- 4 pp. & 42 planches coloriées à la main sous serpentes figurant 535 insectes. Rares rousseurs. Reliure un peu fanée, petites ternissures et frottements, charnière sup. fendillée premier plat fragile. Bon exemplaire Texte en anglais. Superbe recueil du naturaliste anglais Thomas Martyn, réputé pour la qualité de illustrations et fondateur de la prestigieuse Academy for illustrating and painting natural history. in-folio

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Martyn, Thomas. The English Entomologist, exhibiting All the Coleopterous Insects found in England; including upwards of 500 Different Species. arranged and named according to the Linnean System. Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History, London, 1792.

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Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Royal quarto (13 1/4" x 10 3/4", 338mm x 274mm). With an engraved title page, 33, [5] pages, [2] uncolored engraved numismatic plates, and 41 (of 42) hand-colored soft-ground-etched plates of insects, heightened with gum arabic. Lacking plate no. 3 ("Scarabeus"), which is instead supplied in watercolor with caption and identification numbers in ink. Bound in contemporary tree calf, gilt (rebacked to style by English bookbinder Trevor Lloyd). On the spine, six panels. Panels alternating gilt urns and gilt arabesques. Title gilt to green morocco in the second panel. On the edges of the boards, gilt rolls. Gilt guilloche inside dentelle. Marbled end-paper. All edges of the text-block gilt. Rebacked. Fore-corners restored and a little bumped. With one plate supplied in watercolor. A lovely fresh copy. The armorial bookplate of John Rous, 1st Earl of Stradbroke (1750-1827) on the front paste-down. The armorial bookplate of F[rederick] Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Lord Hesketh (1916-1955; from his sale, Sotheby's 15 December 1999, lot 318). Martyn (son of John, also a significant Cambridge botanist) is perhaps best known for his Universal Conchologist. Turning thereafter to insects, Martyn produced his English Entomologist (1792). Rous was one of the great Georgian horsemen, and perhaps had the book bound so very sumptuously. Hesketh (1916-1955) in turn collected a great many fine books, which were sold by his heirs in 1999 and again in 2010. Nissen ZBI 2725

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