Author:James Howell

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James Howell
(1594–1666)

Anglo-Welsh historian and writer

James Howell

Works[edit]

  • Δενδρολογ: Dodona's Grove, or the Vocall Forest (1640)
  • Instructions for Forreine Travel (1642)
  • Casual Discourses and Interlocutions between Patricius and Peregrine touching the Distractions of the Times (1643)
  • A Discourse or Parly continued betwixt Patricius and Peregrine upon their landing in France, touching the civill wars of England and Ireland (1643)
  • Mercurius Hibernicus (1644)
  • Vindication of some passages reflecting upon him (1644)
  • Preeminence and Pedigree of Parliaments (1644)
  • Epistolae Ho-Elianae; The Familiar Letters of James Howell, Historiographer Royal to Charles II (1645-1650)
    • Two-volume 1892 edition, edited, annotated and indexed by Joseph Jacobs (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
  • England's Tears for the present Wars (1646)
  • A sober and seasonable memorandum sent to Philip, Earl of Pembroke (1646)
  • S.P.Q.V. A Survey of the Seignorie of Venice (1651)
  • Some sober Inspections made into the carriage and consults of the late Long Parliament (1653)
  • Londinopolis. An Historical Discourse; or, Perlustration of the City of London and Westminster (1657)
  • England's Joy Expressed … to Monck (1660)
  • Twelve Treatises of the Later Revolutions (1661)
  • Cordial for the Cavaliers (1661)
  • Some sober Inspections made into those Ingredients that went to the composition of a late Cordial call'd A Cordial for the Cavaliers
  • A Nocturnal Progress, or a Perambulation of most Countries in Christendom, Performed in one night by strength of Imagination (1645)
  • Apologs or Fables Mythologized (1645)
  • Winter Dream (1649)
  • A Trance, or News from Hell (1649) `
  • A Vision, or Dialogue between the Soul and Body (1651)
  • Ah! Ha! Tumulus, Thalamus. Two counter poems,' one on the death of Edward Sackville, earl of Dorset, the other on the marriage of the Marquis of Dorchester, with `a bridal sonnet (1653)
  • Θηρολογια. The Parly of Beasts, or Morphandra, Queen of the Inchanted Iland (1660)
  • Lustra Ludovici, or the History of Lewis XIII, 1643)
  • An Account of the Deplorable State of England in 1647 (1647)
  • Bella Scot-Anglica. A Brief Account of all the Battles betwixt England and Scotland (1648)
  • The Instruments of a King … the Sword, Crown, and Sceptre (1648)
  • Inquisition after Blood to the Parliament (1649)
  • The German Diet on the Ballance of Europe (1653)
  • A Discourse of the Empire and of the Election of the King of the Romans (1658)
  • A Brief Character of the Low Countries (1660)
  • A Briefe Account of the Royal Matches … since the year 800 (1662)
  • Προεδρία βασιλική. Discourse concerning the Presidency of Kings (1664)
  • A Treatise concerning Ambassodors (1664)
  • Concerning the Surrender of Dunkirk, that it was done upon good grounds (1664)
  • Lexicon Tetraglotton, or an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary (1659-60)
  • Proverbs or old Sayed Saws and Adages in English or the Saxon tongue, Italian, French, and Spanish: whereunto the British for their great antiquity and weight are added(1659)
  • New English Grammar … for Foreigners to learn English … (1662)
  • Another Grammar of the Spanish or Castilian toung, with some special remarks in the Portugues dialect (1662)
  • A French Grammar, a Dialogue consisting of all Gallicisms, with Additions of … Proverbs (1673)

Poetry[edit]

  • The Vote, or a Poem presented to His Majesty for a New Year's Gift (1642)
  • Poems on severall Choice and Various Subjects occasionally composed by an eminent author (1663), edited by Payne Fisher

As editor[edit]

As translator[edit]

  • St. Paul's late Progress upon Earth (1644), from the Italian;
  • A Venetian Looking-glass … touching the present Distempers in England (1648), from the Italian
  • An exact History of the late Revolutions in Naples (1650, by Alexandro Giraffi
  • The Process and Pleadings in the Court of Spain upon the death of Antony Ascham (1651), from the Spanish
  • History of the Jews (1652), by Josephus `
  • The Nuptials of Peleus and Thetis (1654), from the French
  • Paracelsus, his Aurora. … As also the Water-Stone of the Wise Men (1659)
  • Triumphant Chariot of Antimony (1661), by Basil Valentine
  • Archidoxis (1661), by Paracelsus

Works about Howell[edit]


Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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