John Evelyn
(1620–1706)
English writer, gardener and diarist. Founder member of the Royal Society.

Works

  • Diary of John Evelyn Bray edition (1818): vol 1, vol 2; Wheatley edition (1882): (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3); Dobson edition (1906): vol 1, vol 2, vol 3
  • Of Liberty and Servitude (1649)
  • The States of France, as it stood in the IXth year of Louis XIII. (1652);
  • An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus de Rerum Natura (1656);
  • A Character of England (1659)
  • The Late News from Brussels Unmasked (1660)
  • Fumigium, or The Inconveniencie of the Aer and Smoak of London Dissipated (1661) external link
  • Tyrannus or the Mode, in a Discourse of Sumptuary Laws (1661);
  • Sculptura: or the History and Art of Chatcography and Engraving in Copper (1662); original edition, (1906) with additions
  • Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees (1664); external link
  • The History of the three late famous Imposters, viz. Padre Ottomano, Mahomed Bei, and Sabatei Sevi (1669);
  • Navigation and Commerce, in which his Majesties title to the Dominion of the Sea is asserted against the Novel and later Pretenders (1674)
  • A Philosophical Discourse of Earth (1676)
  • Kalendarium hortense: or, The gard'ners almanac. (1683) external link
  • Numismata. (1697) external link
  • Acetaria: a discourse of sallets (1699) external link
  • The history of religion, a rational account of the true religion (1850) vol 1, vol 2
  • The life of Mrs. Godolphin external link

Translations

  • The Golden Book of St John Chrysostom (printed 1658, dated 1659)
  • The French Gardener: instructing how to cultivate all sorts of Fruit-trees by N. de Bonnefons (1658)
  • Instructions concerning erecting of a Library (1661), from the French of Gabriel Naudé external link
  • A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern (1664), from the French of Roland Fréart;

Works about Evelyn


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