The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
John Martyn (1617/18 - 1680)
Prominent London publisher and bookseller, known chiefly for his production of scientific books and, with partner James Allestry, as printer to the Royal Society responsible for publication of their Philosophical Transactions. He began in 1649 in partnership John Ridley, going independent in 1651. He worked in partnership with James Allestry from 1652 until 1664. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/37741 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martyn_(publisher) Relevant locations: Lived at or near London, EnglandWorkplace or place of business sign of The Castle, Fleet Street
Workplace or place of business sign of The Bell , Temple Bar
Linked print sources: as Printer or Publisher - An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language.
as Printer or Publisher - A note touching a relation, inserted in the last Transactions.
as Printer or Publisher - Catalogus plantarum Angliæ, et insularum adjacentium tum indigenas, tum in agris passim cultas complectens. In quo præter synonyma necessaria facultates quoque summatim traduntur, unà cum observationibus & experimentis novis medicis & physicis.
as Printer or Publisher - Martini Lister Historiæ animalium Angliæ: tres tractatus: unus de araneis: alter de cochleis tum terrestribus, tum fluviatilibus, tertius de cochleis marinis : quibus adjectus est quartus de lapidibus ejusdem insulæ ad cochlearum quandam imaginem figuratis: memoriæ & rationi.
as Printer or Publisher - Observations, topographical, moral, & physiological; made in a journey through part of the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy and France: with a catalogue of plants not native of England, found spontaneously growing in those parts, and their virtues ... Whereunto is added A brief account of Francis Willughby Esq. his voyage through a great part of Spain. Few MS. notes [and additions by Sir George Wheeler] .
as Printer or Publisher - Ornithologiæ libri tres: in quibus aves omnes hactenus cognitæ in methodum naturis suis convenientem redactæ accuratè describuntur, descriptiones iconibus elegantissimis & vivarum avium simillimis, æri incisis illustrantur.
as Printer or Publisher - Sylva, or A discourse of forest-trees ... Terra, a philosophical essay of earth ... Pomona: or, an appendix concerning fruit-trees ... Also Kalendarium hortense ... Third edition much inlarged, and improved.
as Printer or Publisher - The ornithology of Francis Willughby ... : in three books: wherein all the birds hitherto known ... are accurately described: the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVIII copper plates: translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work. To which are added, three considerable discourses, I. Of the art of fowling: with a description of several nets in two large copper plates. II. Of the ordering of singing birds. III. Of falconry. By John Ray.
References in Documents:
I presume by this time you receaved my letter, by
Grewe's
for one booke myself, and will shewe the paper unto others,
and probably some may subscribe, butt others may bee back
ward,
there having been so many subscriptions to other
bookes, and some now on foot. I should bee willing to do
him any service.
ligneus lanterniforis
draught by mee; if you remember not what you did with it,
I can send you the draught. It was found within a rotten
willowe.
which I receaved from Island;
three times the bignesse.
butt at a good distance from the sea, and I beleeve it is not
usual to meet with such a stone.
birds which
unusuall kind of locust, which was given mee long ago, and
brought from the
which I was fayne to call
Odde horny excursion or prominence, running beyond the
3 Probably, "Proposals for printing his Anatomy of Plants," which were read to
the Royal Society,
head, made the sound the lowder. I have the
will have it drawne out, if need bee.
Wee all long to heare of my
very.
Pray present my service to my
Whiting