NO. 1425. THOMAS MA R TYN—DA LL. 421 



from our standpoint if he had given a careful bibhographie collation of the complete 

 set in the Delessert library. 



Englemann, Bibl. Hist. Nat., I, 1846, pp. 182, 462. 



(1) Figures of nondescript shells collected in the several voyages to 

 the South Seas. 2 vols., with 80 col. plates. 4-". London, 1764. 



(2) The saine, with 80 original drawings, exquisitely colored. Atlas 

 in folio. London (Bohn). 18£. 



(3) The universal conchologist: exhibiting the figiire of every known 

 shell, accurately drawn and painted after nature; with a new system- 

 atic arrangement (in engl. and french). 4 vols., with 161 plates, com- 

 prising 322 figures of shells, colour, by the author, gr. broad in folio. 

 London, 1784. 



(4) The same (in engl. and french). 2 vols., with 160 colour, pi. of 

 shells in roy. 4°. London (1785 oder), 1789. 



(5) Expose succinct de la nature, de Toriginc et des progres d'un 

 etablissement particulier, former pour instruire la jeunesse dans Tart 

 d'expliquer et de peiudre des sujets d'histoire naturelle (en Anglais et 

 en Fran?.). 4°. London, 1789. 



Note. — The date to No. 1 is obviously incorrect and was perhaps a misprint for 

 1784. The concensus of the references is that the work appeared both in folio and 

 quarto, which, being merely a matter of paper, is not unlikely to 1)e the case. The 

 date of No. 3 was probably taken from the first title-page of the Ijound volume, the 

 others being overlooked. No. 4 is bound, as usual, in two volumes; the second cor- 

 responds to volumes 3 and 4 of Martyn and appeared not later than 1789, but perhaps 

 in 1786. No. 5 is the preface to this second half of the work and was probably dis- 

 tributed as an advertisement of the whole publication. On the whole, Englemann's 

 citations give the impression of data obtained at second-hand, with a praiseworthy 

 endeavor to get as much as possible, though unable to verify it in detail. 



Carpenter, P. P., Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1863, p. 517, 1864. 



Thomas Martyn, Universal Conchologist, London, 1784. 



Note. — Carpenter remarks that those who know this work only from Chenu's 

 reprint can form Ijut a poor idea of the exquisite beauty of the original. He notes 

 that it may be consulted at the British Museum, Royal Society, and the Royal Col- 

 lege of Surgeons. He cites fifteen northwest American species and gives references 

 to figures in the Conchylien Cabinet, Vols. X and XI, copied from Martyn. 



Davles Sherhorn, Index Anim., 1902, p. xxxvii. 



I. Martyn, Thos. (zoologist), Univ. Conchologist. 4 vols. fo. 

 Lond. With tables, &c. 



I. 40 pi. and table. 1784 [not 1769 as often quoted.] 

 II. 40 pi. and table. 1788. 



III. 40 pi. and table. 1789. 



IV. 40 pis., table, and 2 pis. of medals. 1792 (?). 



[I have seen a unique example of this book, dated 1789, which con- 

 tains 110 of the 160 plates, bound up with the engraved t. p. and the 

 Dedication to the King. It is uncoloured, shows the plates to be 

 highly finished mezzotints, and has a label on the cover which reads: 

 "About 120 plates | of | figures | of | nondescript shells, | collected in 



