Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vitâ actionum, pictura & nomenclatura = Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High Dutch (being one of his last essays and the most suitable to childrens capacities of any that he hath hitherto made) ; and translated into English by Charles Hoole for the use of young Latine scholars.

Author
Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670 [Browse]
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Format
Book
Language
  • Latin
  • English
Published/​Created
London : Printed by T.R. for S. Mearne, Book-binder to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1672.
Description
[16], 309, [11] p. : ill., port. ; 17 cm. (8vo)

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Notes
  • Signatures: A-X⁸.
  • Errors in pagination: p.166, 174, 175, 222-223 misnumbered 199, 175, 174, 221-222, respectively.
  • Portrait of Comenius (first p. [2]) signed: T. Cross Sculpsit.
  • Includes indexes of titles in English and Latin on [11] p. at end.
  • Princeton copy 1 Later three-quarter blue morocco with blue marbled endpapers.
  • Princeton copy 2 Cont. sheep paneled in blind; spine gone; front pastedown wanting.
  • Princeton copy 1 Bookplate of John Evans on cover p. 2; book label of Kinderbuch-Sammlung von Walter Schatzki laid in.
  • Princeton copy 2 Portrait leaf (p. [1-2]) wanting; pages cropped with slight loss of print; ownership marks throughout.
  • Princeton copy 2 From the Diana Rexford Tillson Collection, gift of Lloyd E. Cotsen, Class of 1950.
References
  • Wing, C5524
  • NUC pre-1956, 117:243
Other title(s)
  • Orbis sensualium pictus
  • Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vitâ actionum, pictura & nomenclatura
  • Visible world
OCLC
74658451
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