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CHILDREN'S BOOKS -- COMENIUS, J.A. Orbis Pictus. Die Welt in Bildern. Swet w obrazych. Swiat w obrazach. Le monde en tableaux. (Ed. by Josef Chmela). Hradcy Králowé (= Königgrätz in Bohemia), Jana Host. Pospjsila, 1833. xvi, 454, (4) pp. W. woodcut vign. of three bee hives on ti-p., introd. woodcut signed G. Sturm, 24 small woodcuts of animals, birds, etc to the letters of the alphabet, and 151 woodcuts to the various chapters, incl. the closing woodcut, repeating the introd. one, sev. signed G. Sturm, one also signed Abr. Von Wert. Cont. hcf. (Bind. a bit rubbed, bookblock turned inwards at spine, a bit thumbed/soiled in places, some browning/foxing as usual).
First edition published at Hradcy Králowé, or Königgrätz in Bohemia, of Comenius' revolutionary school book; here with the text in 5 languages: Latin, German, French, Polish and Czech. Impressively, this landmark work was still going strong over 170 years after it was originally published (in German & Latin) in the middle of the seventeenth century. - Pilz 180; cf. Cat. De Koning 38 (Czech-German-French ed. of 1883).€ 240
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