JOHN AMOS COMENIUS Orbis sensualium pictus: Visible World, or a nomenclature and pictures of all the chief things that are in the world and of men's employments therein ... twelfth edition , translated by Charles Hoole London: S. Leacroft, 1777. 12mo. (6¾ x 3¾in; 172 x 97mm), double column in English and Latin, woodcut illustrations throughout, a few crudely hand-coloured (soiled, severe tears and crude repairs to B1-3 with some loss, margins generally frayed with frequent short tears), 19th-century half calf. Provenance : Thomas Bunn, Feb 25 1778 -- J. Bowring, 1802 (ownership signatures on front blank). The boy "striking a ball" in the woodcut on p. 175 may represent early cricket.
JOHN AMOS COMENIUS Orbis sensualium pictus: Visible World, or a nomenclature and pictures of all the chief things that are in the world and of men's employments therein ... twelfth edition , translated by Charles Hoole London: S. Leacroft, 1777. 12mo. (6¾ x 3¾in; 172 x 97mm), double column in English and Latin, woodcut illustrations throughout, a few crudely hand-coloured (soiled, severe tears and crude repairs to B1-3 with some loss, margins generally frayed with frequent short tears), 19th-century half calf. Provenance : Thomas Bunn, Feb 25 1778 -- J. Bowring, 1802 (ownership signatures on front blank). The boy "striking a ball" in the woodcut on p. 175 may represent early cricket.
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