Joh. Amos Comenii orbis sensualium pictus
Subtitle: hoc est omnium principalium in mundo rerum, et in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura =  Joh. Amos Comenius's Visible world, or, A nomenclature, and pictures of all the chief things that are in the world, and of men's employments therein : in above 150 cuts
By: written by the author in Latin and High Dutch, being one of his last essays, and the most suitable to children's capacities of any he has hitherto made ; translated into English by Charles Hoole ; for the use of young Latin scholars
Contributors: Hoole, Charles, 1610-1667; Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870
Edition: 1st American, from the 12th London ed., corr. and enl
Publisher: Printed and sold by T. & J. Swords
Published: 1810
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Latin language -- Readers; Natural history -- Juvenile literature; Picture books for children
Other titles: Visible world
Work titles: Orbis sensualium pictus.
Description: "This famous work, apart from ABC's, might be considered the first picture book for children and marked the beginning of juvenile literature in its own right"--Osborne Collection of early children's books, 1566-1910, page 113 (in note to the 1777 London edition).
Notes: English and Latin in parallel columns

The engravings are by Anderson

Includes index

Shaw & Shoemaker 19817

King Collection copy lacking p. 207-213; some illustrations have color, probably added by an early owner