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J.A. Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum & in vitâ actionum, pictura & nomenclatura... / translated into English by Charles Hoole.
Author
Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670
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Uniform title
Orbis sensualium pictus.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Latin
Published/Created
London : Printed for J. Kirton, at the King-Arms, in Saint Paules Church-yard, 1659.
Description
24 unnumbered pages, 309 pages, 11 unnumbered pages : illustrations (engravings) ; 15 cm (8°)
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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library
128 Eng 18
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Latin language
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Readers
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Early works to 1800
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Natural history
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Juvenile literature
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Early works to 1800
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Natural history
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Pictorial works
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Translator
Hoole, Charles, 1610-1667
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Bookseller
Kirkton, James, 1628-1699
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Former owner
Schatzki, Walter, 1899-1983
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Schiller, Justin G.
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Inscriptions --19th century
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Notes
Text in English and Latin, set in two columns.
Unnumbered page [24] mis-numbered as "16."
Signatures: A⁸ b⁴ B⁸-X⁸.
Illustrations: 150 numbered illustrations throughout the text depicting animals, objects in the natural world, and people at work; illustration #93 depicts printers at work (p. 190), #94 shows a booksellers shop, including a "catalogue" (p.192), and #95 shows a book-binder's shop (p. 194).
Cotsen copy: Illustrations somewhat crudely hand-colored in rust red through page 42, presumably by a child-reader.
Cotsen copy: Imperfect, lacking frontispiece and leaf B2.
Cotsen copy: Inscribed on front free endpaper recto: "J. Evans, 1847."
Cotsen copy: Pictorial bookplate of John ("Johannis") Evans on front pastedown.
Cotsen copy: Small pictorial bookplate of Walter Schatzki on front free endpaper recto.
Cotsen copy: Small pictorial bookplate of Justin Schiller on front free endpaper recto.
Bibliographic references
Index of topics on 11 pages at end.
Binding note
Cotsen copy: Later 18th cent. calf, rebacked with gilt spine title: "Commenius's visible world."
References
English short title catalogue, R20487
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), C5523
Other title(s)
Picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of men's employments therein
Commenius's visible world
Visible world
OCLC
1402189036
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