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COMENIUS, JAN AMOS. Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis Sensualium Pictus . . . Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible World; or, A Nomenclature, and Pictures of All the Chief Thingsthat are in the World, and of Mens Employments therein. Latin text with English translation by Charles Hoole. 148 (of 151) engraved text illustrations. [16], 194, [4] (of [6]) pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait of Comenius (with blank outer corners torn off); lacks H4.5 (pages 103-106 with illustrations 84-86) and final index leaf. Small 8vo, contemporary sheep, spine faded and worn; extensive 18th-century inscriptions and scrawls on front and rear endleaves, marginal soiling, scattered early marginalia, lower outer corner off title slightly affecting imprint, top portion of H1 torn off with text loss. London: John Sprint, 1705
Seventh edition of Hoole's 1659 translation of what is generally considered the first picture book for children, "a milestone in the history of education"--Printing and the Mind of Man (1653-54 original edition in Latin and German).
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