> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 341](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355428) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6181-1) LSID 6181-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1373287) QID Q1373287 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Martyn, John (1699-1768), British physician and botanist at London and Cambridge. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Martyn* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Martyn*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection CGE|CGE]]; some further material at [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. Correspondence at [[Collection BM|BM]]. Manuscripts and 58 original plates by van Huysum at Royal Society, London; correspondence at [[Collection BM|BM]](NH). #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 234, 311, 345; Backer p. 357; Barnhart 2: 456; BB p. 208; Blunt p. 132, 151, 203; BM 3: 1258, 7: 805-806; Clokie p. 207-208; Dawson p. 244, 649; Desmond p. 424; DNB 36:317; Dryander 5: 347; DU 193-194; GF p. 67; Henrey 1: 150, 2: 728-729 \[index\], 3: 81-82; Herder p. 82; HU 476, 517 and 2(1): p. exevi, exevii, cciv, ccv; IH 2: 510; Jackson p. 578; Kew 3: 609; Langman p. 483; Lasègue p. 325, 519; LS 17044; Plesch p. 327-328; PR 5919-5922 (ed. 1: 6617-6622); Rehder 5: 551; SO 621, add. 621; Sotheby 505; TL-1/806-807; TL-2/sec W. Houston; Tucker 1: 466. - Allen, D. E., Proc. Bot. Soc. Brit. Isles 6: 305-324. 1967 (membership of M's botanical society). The naturalist in Britain 288 \[index\]. 1976. - Allibone, S. A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 1234. 1870. - Anon., House Gard. 34(8): 206-209. 1979 (portr.). - Baines, J. E., Vict. Natural. 90: 229. 1973 (epon.). - Cameron, H. C., Sir Joseph Banks 3, 1952. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographic 432. 1880 (herb. at CGE, "2.600 esp."). - Fée, A. L. A., Vie de Linné 249. 1832. - Fries, T. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(5): 260. 1911. - Glass, B. et al., Forerunners of Darwin 233. 1968. - Gorham, G.C., Memoirs of John Martyn... and of Thomas Martyn. London 1830. - Green, J. R., Hist. bot. 176-184. 1914. - Hemsley, W. B., Gard. Chron. 1887(1): 381. - Jessen, K. F. W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 278. 1884. - Jourdan, A. J. L., Dict. sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 6: 207-208. 1824. - Kent, D. H., Brit. herb. 68. 1957 (herb. CGE); Hist. fl. Middlesex 16. 1975. - Nichols, J., Lit. anecdotes eighteenth cent. ed. 2. 3: 638. 1815. - Poggendorff, J. C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 67-68. 1863 (b. 12 Sep 1699, d. 29 Jan 1768). - Pulteney, R., Sketches 2: 205-218. 1790. - Stafleu, F. A., Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 217. 1971. - Stearn, W. T., R. Hort. Soc., Exhib. manuscr. books 27-28. 1954. - Trimen, H. and W. T. Dyer, Fl. Middlesex 389. 1869. - Woodward, B. B., *in* G. Murray, Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 26, 42. 1904 (correspondence). #### Composite works - (1) The compleat herbal: or, the botanical institutions of Mr. Tournefort... 1719-1730. #### Eponymy *Martynia* Linnaeus (1753). ### Publications ##### n.5562. Methodus plantarum **Title** *Methodus plantarum* circa Cantabrigiam nascentium. Londinii (Ex officina Richardi Reily) 1727. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Meth. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1727, p. \[i\]-vii, 1-132. *Copy*: USDA. – Based in part on J. Ray *Meth. pl.* See Henrey nos. 1018, 1019 for an abortive new edition started in 1729. ##### n.5563. Historia plantarum rariorum **Title** Joannis Martyn *Historia plantarum rariorum*... Londini (ex typographia Richardi Reily) 1728. Fol.†. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. pl. rar.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1728\[-1737\], p. \[ii\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-52, 50 *plates* (color-printed copp. van Huysum). *Copies*: HU (*50 pl.*), MO (*49 pl.*), *NY* (*40 pl.*): IDC 6056. – One of the earliest works with color-printed plates. See e.g. Sotheby 505. Re-issue: after 1768, with reset preface and Linnaean index on p. iv of the preface using plant names from Sp. pl. ed. 2: *Copies*: BM, Morton Arboretum (inf. I. MacPhail). *German ed*.: 1752-1754, in five parts; decades 1-2 prelinnaean, 5 post-linnaean, p. \[i-vi\], 1. 24, *pl. 1-50* (col. pl. by J. D. Meyer). *Copies*: G, NY, USDA – "Joannis Martyn *Historia* *plantarum rariorum* ob praestantium denuo editia studio atque opera Joannis Danielis Meyeri pictoris. Johann Martyns *Beschreibung seltener Pflanzen* ihrer Fürtrefflichkeit wegen von Neuem herausgegeben durch Johann Daniel Meyer \[1713-1757\] Miniatur Mahler... "Nürnberg (gedruckt bey Andreas Bieling) 1752. Fol. The plates are mezzotints, partly color-printed. *Second German ed*.: 1797, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-72, *pl. 1-50* (partly col. printed). *Copies*: G, NY, – "Johann Martyns *Abbildung und Beschreibung sellener Gewaechse* neu übersetzt, systematiseh bearbeitet und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von D. Georg Wolffgang Franz Panzer \[1755-1829\]... "Nürnberg (in der Frauenholzischen Kunsthandlung) 1797. Fol. *Note* on post 1768 re-issue: See MacPhail, I. and W. J. Hess, Huntia 3: (in press) on the date of the Linnaean index. Internal evidence makes it clear that this index was prepared after 1768 and added to original sheets thus producing anomalous copies which may still, with some liberty, be called re-issues. For a full analysis of a copy of the original issue, (with complete preface material) and for many additional details, e.g. a list with modern names of the depicted plants, see HU 476. MacPhail, I. and W. J. Hess, Huntia 3(2): 73-81. 1980. ##### n.5564. Tournefort's history of plants **Title** *Tournefort's history of plants* growing about Paris, with their uses in physick; and a mechanical account of the operation of medicines. Translated into English, with many additions. And accomodated to the plants growing in Great-Britain. By John Martyn, F. R. S. in two volumes... London (printed for C. Rivington,...) 1732. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Tourn. hist. pl.* **Notes** *1*: 1732, p. \[i\*-xii\*\], \[i\]-lxvii, \[lxviii\], \[1\]-311. *2*: 1732, p. \[ii-iii\], \[1\]-362, index Z \[6\]-Hh \[4\]. *Copy*: NY.