COMENIUS, JOHANN AMOS. - THE FATHER OF MODERN EDUCATION.

Orbis Sensualium Picti Pars I-II. Der sichtbaren Welt. Erster - (Anderer) Theil. Das ist: Aller vornehmsten Welt=Dinge, und Lebens=Verrichtungen, Vorbildung und Benahmung. Aus neue ausgelegt, an unzählichen Orten, nebst einem Titel= und Wörter=Register verbessert; auch mit ganz neuen, schönern und deutlichen Figuren versehen.

Nürnberg, Joh. Andr. Endt., 1769.

8vo. Contemp. full calf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Gilding weak. Large engraved oval vignette on first titlepage. (22),315 pp. + Latin & German Indexes - (2),449 pp. + Latin & German Indexes. Profusely illustrated with more than 300 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, showing different trades, industries, occupations, geography, astronomy etc. etc.. A few minor brownspots. old name on title-page J.D. Tode.

With German and Latin text by the "father of modern education". Comenius was the innovator who first introduced pictorial, educational textbooks (as here) and written in native language.

Order-nr.: 54520