The Leighton Library has a 1685 edition of "Conversations nouvelles sur divers sujets" by Madeleine de Scudéry

Added by Leighton Library at 05:15 on 02 June 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1685 edition of "Conversations nouvelles sur divers sujets" (New conversations on various topics) by French author Madeleine de Scudéry (known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry) who died #OnThisDay 2 June 1701. This text offered the rhetoric of salon conversation and model...

Leighton Library has a 1776 edition of his "Sylva: a discourse of forest-trees together with a historical account of the sacredness and use of standing groves." by John Evelyn

Added by Leighton Library at 06:38 on 31 May 2024

#OnThisDay 31 May 1669 famed English diarist Samuel Pepys recorded his final diary entry. Writer, gardener and diarist John Evelyn was a contemporary of Pepys, but Evelyn’s diaries, or memoirs, were not published until later. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1776 edition of his "Sylva: a d...

Leighton Library has a 1663 first edition of "Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus De animalibus sacrae scripturae" by Samuel Bochart

Added by Leighton Library at 05:50 on 30 May 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1663 first edition of "Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus De animalibus sacrae scripturae" (a zoological treatise on the animals of the bible), by French biblical scholar Samuel Bochart who was born #OnThisDay 30 May 1599