?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
COMENIUS, JAN AMOS. Porta linguarum trilinguis reserata et aperta. Latin, English, and French text in parallel columns printed in roman, black letter, and italic types. [32], 282, [6] pages, including final blank. 8vo, 145x95 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; margins trimmed touching rule border on some leaves, not affecting text, marginal soiling and stains on opening leaves, contents otherwise clean. Bookplate of Sterling T. Foote. London: Thomas Cotes for Thomas Sclater, 1633
Second edition of Comenius's popular Latin phrasebook to include translations into English and French. The first in this trilingual format appeared in London in 1631, the same year as the Latin-only original edition published in Leszno, Poland, under the title Janua linguarum reserata. STC 15079.5.
