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| Evelyn, John | 19 |
| Evelyn, John (1620-1706) | 10 |
| Evelyn, John (1655-1699) | 2 |
| Freart, Roland Sieur De Chambray (1606-1676) | 2 |
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| Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) | 2 |
| Alberti, Leon Battista | 1 |
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| Barlow, Thomas (1607-1691) | 1 |
Remembrances of things worth seeing in Italy given to John Evelyn 25 April 1646
Arundel, Thomas Howard Earl of (1585-1646); Evelyn, John (1620-1706); Robinson, John Martin; Roxburghe Club
1987
Sender: Evelyn, John
Recipient: Plot, Robert, Dr
Letters: 1
Date(s): 9 Dec 1687
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Evelyn. In envelope, with a typescript copy
Note: Information concerning the life of Sir Richard Brown, Plot's father-in-law, for Anthony Wood's "Athenae Oxoniensis". Transcript of the inscription on his monument, with the note: "For he would be interr'd in the Church-yard, close to the wall of the Church, where is a black marble ballustred over him, with a short Latine inscription. This English one being in an Ile within the Church. The letters are all Capitol". Reference to his "accademical learning" and his relations with Charles I and Charles II. His life in France and his religious beliefs, his services to the King and the attraction of his character.
Sender: Evelyn, John
Recipient: Thoresby, Ralph
Letters: 1
Date(s): 19 Jul 16[99]
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Evelyn. In folding cloth case, guarded, with typescript copy
Note: Apologises for delay in answering Thoresby's letter, due to his involvement in an estate appeal to Parliament, and to the death of his only son. Discussion of the cures achieved by Mr Stroaker ("Phil. Trans.", 256) by laying on of hands. Wishes to send him a Nanteuil print.
Sender: Godelphnis [?]
Recipient: Evelyn, John
Letters: 1
Date(s): 6 Nov 1710
Location: BC Misc letters (bound): "A Collection of Autograph Letters From Eminent Peers" vol. A - K
Note: Collected by John Temple.
Sir John Evelyn his report from the Committee, appointed to consider of the printing of the Lord Digbyes speech concerning the Bill of Attainder of the Earl of Strafford. Whereunto is added the Order for the burning of the said speech
Evelyn, Sir John (1591-1664); Great Britain. Parliament
Anno 1641
Imprint expanded from Wing(2).
An essay on the first book of T. Lucretius Carus De rerum natura
Titus Lucretius Carus; Evelyn, John (1620-1706)
1656
Added t.p. by Mary Evelyn, engraved by W. Hollar, reads: T. Lucretius Carvs. De rerum natura. Lib. i. Interpreted by J.E. London, G. Bedell and T. Collins, 1656. Page nos. 81-96 omitted in numbering...
The compleat gard'ner; or, Directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens : with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry : In six books
La Quintinie, Jean de (1626-1688); Evelyn, John (1620-1706); La Quintinie, Jean de (1626-1688)
1693
"First edition of Evelyn's translation"--Hunt. "A treatise of orange-trees" formed part of the original French ed. of La Quintinie's Instruction (Paris, 1690); however "The raising of melons", with ...
Les provinciales : or, The mystery of Jesuitisme. Discovered in certain letters, written upon occasion of the present differences at Sorbonne, between the Jansenists and the Molinists: displaying the pernicious maximes of the late casuists
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); James, Sir Walter (1816-1893); Evelyn, John (1620-1706)
1658
"Additionals to The mystery of Jesuitisme. Englished by the same hand" (with special t.-p.): 1 L., 147, [6] p. at end.
Les provinciales: or, The mysterie of Jesuitisme : discover'd in certain letters, written upon occasion of the present differences at Sorbonne, between the Jansenists and the Molinists, from January 1656. to March 1657. S.N. Displaying the corrupt maximes and politicks of that Society
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Evelyn, John (1620-1706)
1657
This translation sometimes attributed to J. Evelyn. Added title page, engraved by Ro. Vaughan, gives author's name as Louis de Montalte. Pages 505-509 misnumbered 405-409. Errata: p. [513]; publ...
Grinling Gibbons: his work as carver and statuary, 1648-1721
Green, David Brontèˆ (1910-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
[1964]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-190), and index.
Title: The immortality of verse
Author: Evelyn, John
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: On poetry's role as preserver of the memory of great men and the immortality of the poets compared to the transitory nature of material things. Transcription of 'The immortality of poesie', by John Evelyn, after Ovid 'To Envy', Amores, I.15