ID 1026934
Лот 100 | Georgicks [Bucolicks], translated by John Martyn, 1741-49, 2 vols, colour-printed botanical plates
Оценочная стоимость
£ 1 500 – 3 000
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 4to (285 x 225mm.), Georgics: list of subscribers, 12 coloured plates including a double-page world map, and 5 botanical plates printed in colours and finished by hand; Bucolics: engraved frontispiece, printed title in red and black, 2 hand-coloured maps, one folding, 2 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf, joints cracking
The plates exhibit a very early example of colour printing, likely executed by Jacob van Huysum and Elisha Kirkall, who worked on Martyn’s Historia, although they are unsigned.
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