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1667

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Source:

Title: Joh. Amos Comenii, Orbis sensualium pictus: hoc est: Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura. Latino-Gallico-Germanico-Polonicè.
Author: Joh Amos Komenský
Translator: -
Publisher: -
Printer: Impensis Caspari Mülleri (Kaspar Müller, Casparum Müllerum)
Typographer: Christoph Tschorn
Engraver: -
Location: bibliopolae Wratislav (Bregae Silesiorum Wratislaviensis, Veneunt Vratislaviae in Domo Kölnitzschiana)
Year: 1667
There are three different publications: same publisher, same year, probably the same text. The type has been reset, but the illustrations in all three editions seems identical.
Links: #15 [Scan 1], [Scan 2]. Illustration follows page 230.
Links: #16 [Scan 1]. Illustration follows page 232.
Links: #17 [Scan 1]. Illustration follows page 230.

Comments:

According to the 1967 bibliography of Kurt Pilz, 245 editions were published of which fifty-five appeared before 1701. An overview of the illustrations is provided here.

German-Latin-Polish-French edition: #15, #16, and #17. The title pages might make it easier to differentiate between these three:

Description

#15

Description

#16

Description

#17

Technique:

Woodcut

Literature:

Kurt Pilz (1967) ‘Die Ausgaben des Orbis sensualium pictus: Eine Bibliographie’. Nürnberg: Selbstverlag der Stadtbibliothek. Comenius #15, #16, and #17: German-Latin-Polish-French. (page 107-112).

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