Joh. Amos Comenii Orbis sensualium pictus: hoc est, omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vitâ actionum pictura & nomenclatura. = Joh. Amos Come[nius's] Visible world. Or, a picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world; and of mens employments therein. A work newly written by the author in Latine, and High-Dutch (being one of his last essays, and the most suitable to childrens capacities of any that he hath hitherto made) and translated into English, by Charles Hoole, M.A. for the use of young Latine scholars.
Joh. Amos Comenii Orbis sensualium pictus: hoc est, omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vitâ actionum pictura & nomenclatura. = Joh. Amos Come[nius's] Visible world. Or, a picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world; and of mens employments therein. A work newly written by the author in Latine, and High-Dutch (being one of his last essays, and the most suitable to childrens capacities of any that he hath hitherto made) and translated into English, by Charles Hoole, M.A. for the use of young Latine scholars.
Uniform title
Orbis sensualium pictus
Created/published
London : Printed for Charles Mearne, his Majesties bookseller at the Kings Arms at Charing-Cross, 1685.
Title page (A2) and leaf A7 are cancels. Frontis. port. of author signed: T. Cross Sculpsit. "Orbis sensualium pictus. A world of things obvious to the senses drawn in pictures." has a divisional title page on leaf B1r.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000-2001. Writing on Hands (catalog entry 33) Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2018.Form and Function: The Genius of the Book.Opening: p.195.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), C5525 English short title catalogue (ESTC), R224316
Includes
Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670. Orbis sensualium pictus. English. Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670. Orbis sensualium pictus. Latin.
cs157. Engr. port. pasted to front cover; illustration no. 66 on a slip cancel - no. 64 being wrongly printed in its place. Provenance: on t.p. stamped: "Sheppard 21" in a way which affects lines 6-9 of title; signatures of Bernard Tand and Mary Tirney
