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COMENIUS, Johann Amos (1592-1670). Orbis Sensualium Pictus...Visible World: or, a nomenclature, and pictures of all the chief things that are in the world...In above 150 copper cuts...translated into English by Charles Hoole, M.A....The Eleventh edition, corrected...London: printed for, and sold by John and Benj. Sprint...1728. 8° (158 x 90mm). Collation: A-N8, 04. Engraved portrait frontispiece, signed T. Cross, 154 (of 156) engraved illustrations, including two "ladder" cuts to illustrate an alphabet and diagrams of planetary movements etc. (A1 = frontispiece, laid down, torn lower edges; lacks 01, supplied in photocopy. Some soiling and minor paper repairs). Nineteenth century ? morocco, gilt ruled, floral dentelles, marbled endpapers. Provenance: L. Evans "the gift of his father" 1794; Sebastian Evans (pictorial book-plate). Pilz 84; Sadler pp.440-1. First published in England in 1659 with copper-plates much superior to the woodcuts of the 1658 Nuremberg original. In 1672 the plates were re-engraved for the third edition and this present printing is the last from those coppers. The twelfth edition of 1777 reverted to woodcuts. Sadler notes that the 1728 edition has a new preface and seeks to make the English vocabulary correspond line for line with the Latin. -- James GREENWOOD (d.1737). The London Vocabulary, English and Latin...Adorned with twenty-six pictures. For the use of schools. The twenty-third edition...London: printed for R. Baldwin et al. 1807. 12° (136 x 84mm). Longman, Hurst advertisements on verso of title-page and last leaf. Woodcut on title-page, and 25 woodcuts in text. Original school binding in polished sheep. Provenance: Yerbury S.. 1812 (inscription); Crewe Hall Library. Juvenile Books (book label). (2)

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COMENIUS, Johann Amos (1592-1670). Orbis Sensualium Pictus...Visible World: or, a nomenclature, and pictures of all the chief things that are in the world...In above 150 copper cuts...translated into English by Charles Hoole, M.A....The Eleventh edition, corrected...London: printed for, and sold by John and Benj. Sprint...1728. 8° (158 x 90mm). Collation: A-N8, 04. Engraved portrait frontispiece, signed T. Cross, 154 (of 156) engraved illustrations, including two "ladder" cuts to illustrate an alphabet and diagrams of planetary movements etc. (A1 = frontispiece, laid down, torn lower edges; lacks 01, supplied in photocopy. Some soiling and minor paper repairs). Nineteenth century ? morocco, gilt ruled, floral dentelles, marbled endpapers. Provenance: L. Evans "the gift of his father" 1794; Sebastian Evans (pictorial book-plate). Pilz 84; Sadler pp.440-1. First published in England in 1659 with copper-plates much superior to the woodcuts of the 1658 Nuremberg original. In 1672 the plates were re-engraved for the third edition and this present printing is the last from those coppers. The twelfth edition of 1777 reverted to woodcuts. Sadler notes that the 1728 edition has a new preface and seeks to make the English vocabulary correspond line for line with the Latin. -- James GREENWOOD (d.1737). The London Vocabulary, English and Latin...Adorned with twenty-six pictures. For the use of schools. The twenty-third edition...London: printed for R. Baldwin et al. 1807. 12° (136 x 84mm). Longman, Hurst advertisements on verso of title-page and last leaf. Woodcut on title-page, and 25 woodcuts in text. Original school binding in polished sheep. Provenance: Yerbury S.. 1812 (inscription); Crewe Hall Library. Juvenile Books (book label).
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