8vo, XVI, 454 pp, with engraved portrait, woodcut vign. of three bee hives on title-page, 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. Slightly foxed. Modern half calf binding, antique style, marbled boards. We add: idem. Orbis Pictus. Svet v Obrazich. Die Welt in Bildern. Le Monde en tableaux. Jana Pospisila, 1883. 8vo, xii, 318, [6] pp, with lith. portrait of the author in gold & brown and 134 chromolithogr. ill. i.t. Original cloth-backed chromolithogr. boards (boards a bit rubbed and spotted, spine discoloured). (together: 2 vol.)
Comenius, or Komensky was an eminent Slavic educator and Moravian bishop, who, because of persecution, was forced to flee Poland. In 1641, the Parliament of England invited him to assist in reforming the system of public instruction. He made important reforms in the teaching of languages
