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1700

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Source:

Title: Joh. Amos Comnienii Orbis sensualium pictus: hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura. Joh. Amos Commenius’s Visible world: or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world.
Author: Joh Amos Commenius
Translator: Charles Hoole
Printer: Printed for, and sold by John Sprint, at the Bell in Little Britain.
Typographer: -
Engraver: -
Location: London
Year: 1700
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2].

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.

Technique:

Woodcut.

Literature:

Kurt Pilz (1967) ‘Die Ausgaben des Orbis sensualium pictus: Eine Bibliographie’. Nürnberg: Selbstverlag der Stadtbibliothek. Comenius #55: Latin-German. (page 153).

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