Joh. Amos Comenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium principalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura = Joh. Amos Comenius’s Visible world, or, A nomenclature, and pictures, of all the chief things that are in the world, and of men’s employments therein : in above 150 cuts / written by the author in Latin and High Dutch, being one of his last essays, and the most suitable to children’s capacities of any he hath hitherto made ; translated into English by Charles Hoole, M.A. for the use of young Latin scholars.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670, author.

Contributor:

Hoole, Charles, 1610-1667, translator.

Bodley Head (Firm), publisher.

Horupu Shuppan, publisher.

Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, other.

Series:

Facsimile editions from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books

Standardized Title:

Orbis sensualium pictus. English & Latin

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Readers.

Latin language.

Natural history--Juvenile literature.

Natural history.

Genre:

Juvenile works.

Readers (Publications)

Juvenile literature -- Great Britain -- 18thcentury.

Physical Description:

[16], 197, [7] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Edition:

Facsimile edition.

Production:

Visible world, or, A nomenclature, and pictures, of all the chief things that are in the world, and of men’s employments therein

Other Title:

Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium principalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura

Omnium principalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura

Joh. Amos Comenius’s Visible world, or, A nomenclature, and pictures, of all the chief things that are in the world, and of men’s employments therein

Visible world

Nomenclature, and pictures, of all the chief things that are in the world, and of men’s employments therein

Place of Publication:

[London] ; : [Sydney] : [The Bodley Head] ; Tokyo : Holp Shuppan, 1981.

Language Note:

English translation, with Latin original, of: Orbis sensualium pictus.

Notes:

"Facsimile editions from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books The Bodley Head London Sydney"--Slip case.

"Facsimile edition reproduced from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, Toronto Public Library by Holp Shuppan, Publishers, Tokyo 1981"--Colophon.

Originally published: The twelfth edition, corrected and enlarged and the English made to answer word for word to the Latin. London : Printed for S. Leacroft, 1777.

Issued in slip case.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Reference copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller.

Kislak Center Reference copy: slip case retained.

OCLC:

17381204