COMENIUS (Joannes Amos). *Orbis pictus*. *Die Welt in Bilder - Lot 109

COMENIUS (Joannes Amos). *Orbis pictus*. *Die Welt in Bildern*. *Svet w obrazech*. *Swiat w obrazach*. *Le monde en tableaux*. Hradec Králové, Jana Host. Pospjsila, 1833. In-8, contemporary cardboard binding. A charming multilingual edition printed in Bohemia, with text in Latin, German, Czech, Polish, and French in six columns, illustrated with numerous woodcuts. This children’s encyclopedia by Jan Amos Comenius (1592–1670), the renowned Moravian philosopher, theologian, and educator, was first published in 1658. It is divided into 151 short chapters: religion, animals, agriculture, livestock farming, food-related trades, cooking, machines and devices, entertainment, rustic pleasures (hunting, fishing, and bird-keeping), printing, bookselling, bookbinding, books, etc. Light foxing. Worn cardboard binding.

Estimate:£333.86

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