Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Joh. Amos Commenii, Orbis sensualium pictus : hoc est, omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vitâ actionum, pictura & nomenclatura = Die sichtbare Welt : das ist, aller vornemsten Welt-Dinge und Lebens-Verrichtungen, vorbildung und benahmung.

Accession number
PML 83013
Creator
Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.
Published

Noribergæ : Typis & sumptibus Michaelis Endteri, 1658

Credit line

Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1978.

Notes

Collation: octavo, )(⁸ A-V⁸.
Library's copy lacking the volvelle on A5v. 
Once reported as one of three perfect copies recorded and the only one in the U.S.
PML copy: Some cropping, affecting page no. and ornaments at head of page.

Description

16, 309, [11] p. : ill. (wood cuts) ; 15 cm

Provenance

Lathrop C. Harper, 1978; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1978.

Binding

Later quarter navy roan, gilt, marbled boards; in case.

Classification
Department