John evelyn translator (5 risultati)

Hardcover (Full Leather). Condizione: Very Good Condition. First Edition. Contemporary speckled, paneled, calf. Worn and rubbed, hinges cracked but binding still sound. Front blank removed and portrait a touch loose. A few pages browned and poorly opened, 106-110 in part II. A few browned pages and a light waterstain at the end in the melon section. Generally very good or better internally, quite fresh overall. With the portrait and 11 plates, two folding, as well as a few in text and vignette illustrations. Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie was director of Louis XIV fruit and vegetable gardens beginning in 1670 and created the potager du roi to provide fresh produce for the king. He developed a number of innovative techniques for year round production - his son published his work on gardening posthumously in 1690. John Evelyn was the author of the great forestry work, Sylva, Aceteria (the first English book on salad) and Pomona, a work on apple and cider prudcution, among many others. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Gardening; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 049736.…

Folio, pp.I: [xliv], 106, [8(ff.'107110')], 111114, [8(ff.'115117', '116')], 119184, [4], 116, 137204, [3], [1(blank)], 4, 80, with engraved frontispiece portrait and 11 engraved plates (of which 2 folding); 10 engraved vignettes and 4 woodcut illustrations in text, engraved vignette to p.162 omitted, title printed in red and black; closed tear to plate facing p.11, paper-flaw to upper outer corner of 1N1 (barely touching headline), a few short closed marginal tears, the odd minor stain, else a very good copy; bound in contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, sympathetically rebacked with spine-piece largely relaid and gilt red morocco lettering-piece, endpapers renewed; a little scuffed and bumped; ownership inscriptions of Richard Musgrave and faint arithmetic calculation to title.First edition in English, translated by John Evelyn, of this splendidly illustrated work on fruit trees and gardening by the directeur général of Louis XIV's gardens, expanded to include the first appearance in print of Evelyn's treatises on orange trees and melons. Evelyn's translation expands on the French edition (1690), with the addition of Quintinie's Treatise of Orange-Trees and Some Directions concerning the Ordering of Melons, translated from a manuscript sent to Evelyn after Quintinie's visit to Sayes Court some thirty years previously; the texts are printed together as 'a large folio, almost the last of Evelyn's major publications' (Keynes). The large plates show the kitchen garden at Versailles, methods of pruning and grafting, and gardening tools, in addition to which 'A fine engraved portrait of the author was prefixed and the text was embellished with a charming series of small copper plates illustrating various garden activities of the period' (ibid.). The work was never reprinted in full, though it was abridged for an octavo edition of 1699, without reference to Evelyn and with his additions removed. Provenance: Richard Musgrave (16521727), of West Monkton, Somerset, was an elder brother of the physician and antiquary William Musgrave (16551721), Secretary to the Royal Society and editor of the Philosophical Transactions, nos 167178. Richard died without issue and his library was inherited by Mary Musgrave (née Clarke), wife of his eldest nephew George Musgrave (16821724). ESTC R212118; Henrey 218; Hunt 388; Keynes 103; Wing L 431. Language: In translation.…

Condizione: Near fine. First Edition. Small folio, 13 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (343 x 222 mm); (xxvi), 159 pp.; errata and publisher's list. 40 full-page engravings including t.p. closely follow those of the French original (1650) and are numbered on the plate to their page numbers; head- and tail-pieces, vignettes and 2 smaller engraving illustrating Alberti's work; woodcut initials. Engraved t.p. precedes letterpress t.p. with portrait of Monsieur de Noyers, in decorative frame with garlands and pediment with book title "A paralell [sic] of architecture both ancient & moderne". Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, with original gilt label in one of spine compartments. Frontispiece with engraved portrait of Monsieur de Noyers, in decorative frame with garlands and pediment with book title; Title page with publishers device. Small tears and defects on corners to first few pages and on plates not affecting the plate (except 71 where tear enters bottom of plate for about 1cm); a few corners bent or worn but overall pages are evenly toned and supple with minimal staining, except for a curious rust stain on pages 136-137 probably from a key that was left inside the book. Provenance: Armorial book plates of John Peyto Verney, Lord Willoughy deBroke & of Robert John Verney, Lord Willoughy deBroke, pasted to inside cover; previous ink inscription also inside front cover; with the library stamp of Herbert Maynard Smith (1869-1949) and J. Outram Smith (1871-1954), on the front free endpaper. The Smiths, both Anglican clergymen, amassed a substantial collection of theology, history, philosophy, and literature. [Harris/Savage 230]. An important work on architecture which influenced both French and English architects of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. This is the first edition in English from the original French edition of 1650, a book which Evelyn had purchased shortly after its publication. With printed dedications to Charles II, and to Sir John Denham, Surveyor of the King's Works, this book was intended for an intellectual market and to demonstrate the superiority of the architecture and proportions of ancient buildings. This edition was followed by three more by 1733, attesting to the success of this book and was probably then circulated among builders and artisans. Roland Friar de Chambray (1606 - 1676) was a French writer, collector, and a theorist of architecture and the arts. Though not a practitioner himself, his two major publications, Parallèle de l'architecture antique avec la moderne (1650) and Idée de la perfection de la peinture (1662), appeared at a time when French architects were struggling to apply a new sense of discipline and order to the practice of building. He spent several years in Italy and returned there often on different projects, including casting the colossal horsemen of the Quirinal in bronze for the main entrance to the Louvre, a project never brought to fruition following the deaths of both Cardinal Richelieu and King Louis XIII. Fréart's objective when his book was first published in Paris in 1650 was to compare the treatment of the orders of architecture by such eminent writers as Palladio, Scamozzi, and Serlio, with actual examples from the surviving buildings of ancient Rome, and as such his book was highly regarded by architectural practitioners of the period in and outside France. The book was translated into English by distinguished connoisseur John Evelyn (1620 - 1706) as A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern. Evelyn writes a long and fawning dedicatory epistle to King Charles II (1630 - 1685) and adds to the original French text an essay by Leon Battista Alberti "De Statua" (original in Latin but Evelyn's translation from the Italian version by Cosimo Bartoli); pp. 145-159 with two plates and tables of ideal statuary proportions and measurements. …

First Edition. 12mo, pp.[34], 405, [2, printer's advertisements], [1, blank], lacking the blank leaf A1; occasional light toning, small tear to the fore-edge of D4 not affecting text; in contemporary English calf sewn on three thongs laced in, double-filleted in blind, spine ruled in blind, speckled edges; small chip to head of spine, corners bumped, lower board scuffed; ownership inscription of William Grant to title-page ('Gul.Grant') and to final blank ('Ex Libris Gulielmus Gra[n]t JDC [] 1694?).First edition in English of La morale pratique des Jesuites (1669), a polemical Jansenist critique of Jesuit practices intended to 'inspire the World, and the Jesuites themselves, with horror at their detestable Morality' (p.[4]). With a distinct emphasis on the avarice and pride of the Jesuits, La morale pratique des Jesuites was published in eight volumes, the first two of which were compiled by Sébastien Joseph du Cambout and the remainder by Antoine Arnauld. The present work is a translation of the first volume, frequently attributed to John Evelyn. In it, the Jesuits are accused of immoral doctrine as well as practice through a series of extracts, among them a prophecy by Hildegard von Bingen foretelling the rise of 'men without a Chief, who shall feed and grow fat upon the sins of the people' (p.5); it is followed by a line-by-line analysis connecting each element of the prophecy to an element of Jesuit corruption. They are characterised, inter alia, as 'familiar with ladies, and with other women, and teaching them to cheat their husbands'; 'living deliciously'; 'shameless in their behaviour'; 'studious to invent new ways to do mischief'; 'depriving the poor, the miserable, and the sick of their Almes'; and 'cajoleing the populace, and courting their favour' through embellished accounts of their travels in Japan, Poland, Germany, and Rome. A near-contemporary inscription to the front pastedown reads 'The Frontispiece of this book being a virgin is wanting'; this is likely a misunderstanding, as such a frontispiece is mentioned on p.4, though in reference to the 1640 Image du premier siècle de la Societé des Jesuites. Provenance: Likely the William Grant (16091678) who received his BA from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1627 and MA from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1633; he was later vicar of Islesworth (Middlesex), where his parishioners 'brought twenty-one articles against him in Parliament in 1641', for such charges as opposing the practice of psalm-singing; he was said 'to have "called the singing Psalmes, Hopkins Jigges, and affirmed that he had rather heare a pair of Organs ten to one, then the singing of them'. ESTC R15181; USTC 3087878. Barbier III, col.355; Sommervogel XI 728b; Wing D2415. Language: English.…

Condizione: Near fine. First Edition in English, First Issue. Small 8vo; 6 1/2 x 4 1/8 inches (165 x 104 mm); [40], 237 [1] pp., with the errata at the beginning of the table of contents, table misbound after dedication, C1 with tear to lower margin, not affecting text, some light marginal browning. Etched garland and cornucopia arms of Lord Arlington on both title and dedicatory page. Later brown calf binding, decorative blind stamp on covers, title in gilt on spine; trimmed, marbled edges. Internally clean and bright with consistent toning on the edges; spine a little faded and light rubbing to spine ends and corners; firmly bound. Provenance: Herbert Maynard Smith (1869-1949) and J. Outram Smith (1871-1954), with their library stamp to the front free endpaper. The Smiths, both Anglican clergymen, amassed a substantial collection of theology, history, philosophy, and literature. Also a previous owner's ink inscription dated 1770 is at head of dedication page: Tho. Boston Alnwick 1770. [Keynes 181; ESTC 006089128]. John Evelyn the Younger's first book, RARE FIRST ISSUE with title date 1672. We can trace no example of this issue for sale and only 6 copies listed on ESTC. Keynes states seeing the TABLE (with errata relating to page numbering) in only the ULC copy. [Keynes, Geoffrey. John Evelyn: a study in bibliophily with a bibliography of his writings. Oxford; London: Clarendon Press, 1968] René Rapin (1621 - 1687) was an erudite French Jesuit who taught rhetoric and was knows as the "Second Theocritus". He wrote extensively on the classical Greek and Latin authors as well as on theological issues linked to Jansenism, a controversial movement within Catholicism, primarily active in France. John Evelyn the Younger (1655 - 1699) was the third son of John Evelyn, the famed writer, diarist, bibliophile and horticulturalist. Through his father's influence he moved in the influential court circles of the Restoration period and held some posts at the treasury. He was also a poet and a translator from both Latin and French. …