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. Translated into English by Charles Hoole, London: John and Benjamin Sprint, 1728. 8° (160 x 100mm.). Latin and English text in double column, engraved frontispiece portrait, 153 engraved illustrations. (Frontispiece cleanly torn and lightly dampstained, some tears to inner margins affecting text and illustrations on pages 27-28 and 43-71, occasional light thumbsoiling and spotting). Contemporary speckled calf. (Upper cover detached, lower joints weak). "Eleventh" edition.

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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. Translated into English by Charles Hoole, London: John and Benjamin Sprint, 1728. 8° (160 x 100mm.). Latin and English text in double column, engraved frontispiece portrait, 153 engraved illustrations. (Frontispiece cleanly torn and lightly dampstained, some tears to inner margins affecting text and illustrations on pages 27-28 and 43-71, occasional light thumbsoiling and spotting). Contemporary speckled calf. (Upper cover detached, lower joints weak). "Eleventh" edition.

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