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COMENIUS [KOMENSKY], John Amos. Zrelishche vselennyia [The Visible World, in the French, Russian and German Languages. Second edition]. St. Petersburg: [Vil'kovskii Press], 1793.
8° (200 x 125mm). 80 engraved plates. (Lacks final blank leaf, a few minor marginal tears.) Contemporary sheep, olive lettering piece on spine (slightly rubbed, split in upper hinge). Provenance: Pomialovskii (Russian inscription on endpaper with occasional gloss in text); V. Klochkov Bookshop (booklabel).
Printed in 2,750 copies for the Commission for the Establishment of Popular Schools, this is the second edition in these three languages, the first having appeared in 1788 printed in 5,000 copies. Svodnyi katalog 3074; see Obol'ianinov 1013.
8° (200 x 125mm). 80 engraved plates. (Lacks final blank leaf, a few minor marginal tears.) Contemporary sheep, olive lettering piece on spine (slightly rubbed, split in upper hinge). Provenance: Pomialovskii (Russian inscription on endpaper with occasional gloss in text); V. Klochkov Bookshop (booklabel).
Printed in 2,750 copies for the Commission for the Establishment of Popular Schools, this is the second edition in these three languages, the first having appeared in 1788 printed in 5,000 copies. Svodnyi katalog 3074; see Obol'ianinov 1013.