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4316 MARTYN (T.). The universal Conchologist, exhibiting 



881 MARTYN (T.). The Universal Conchologist, exhibiting 

 the Figure of every known Shell, accurately drawn, and 

 painted after Nature : with a new systematic arrangement 

 by the Author, Thomas Martyn. Sold at his House No. 25, 

 King Street, Covent Garden, London. 4 vols., atlas 4to., 

 Original Issue, with coloured frontispiece, 2 engraved 

 plates of Medals, and 160 plates containing 322 coloured 

 figures ; a very fine copy in contemporary tree-calf gilt, gilt 

 backs, joints neatly repaired ; with the bookplate of George 

 Priestley 1784 35 



The plates, like those of the same author's Psijche, comprise ex- 

 quisite figures painted by Martyn himself, the engraver's 'groundwork 

 of which are stippled suggestions of outline and shading. The 

 figures are really water-colour drawings and form the most beautiful 

 known" representations of shells. 



The complete work in four volumes is very rare, although the first 

 two volumes are comparatively common. Even Sir Joseph Banks was 

 unsuccessful when endeavouring to obtain the entire work. Evidently 

 Martyn only completed copies to order. 



upward of fifty years prior to that date. The Roscoe copy sold for 

 £34. 2s 6d and the Fonthill example for £52. 10s. 





