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Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium principalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura = Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A nomenclature, and pictures of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein

Archive Print Item: Cookery A/COM

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Type of record: Book

Title: Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium principalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura = Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A nomenclature, and pictures of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein

Other titles: Orbis sensualium pictus; Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A nomenclature, and pictures of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein; Visible world

Level: Item

Classmark: Cookery A/COM

Creator(s): Comenius, Johann Amos (1592-1670)

Additional creator(s): Hoole, Charles (1610-1667) (Other)

Related people: Hoole, Charles

Publisher: Printed for, and sold by John Sprint

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1705

Language: Latin

Size and medium: [16], 194, [6] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/252300

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016025369705181

Collection group(s): Cookery Collection

Description

English and Latin in parallel columns.


Signatures: A-N8 O4.


Illustrations: 156 prints from 155 plates : engraving; plate mark 6 x 8 cm. Based on the ill. by Paul Kreutzberger for the original Latin-German ed. Twenty-four figs. illustrating alphabet of animal sounds printed from 2 plates; remaining ill. numbered in the plate 1-150 (63 and 107 repeated in numbering), with ill. no. 1 repeated as final ill. following no. 150. Full-page frontispiece port. of Comenius engraved by T. Cross after Glover; cf. Early engravers and engraving in England 1545-1695 / Sidney Colvin, 1905, p. 142.


Includes indexes.


ESTC T133046.

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