COMENIUS. J. A. Comenii Janua aurea reserata duarum linguaru - Lot 185

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COMENIUS. J. A. Comenii Janua aurea reserata duarum linguaru - Lot 185
COMENIUS. J. A. Comenii Janua aurea reserata duarum linguarum, sive Compendiosa methodus latinam et gallicam linguam perdiscendi , sub titulis centum, periodis mille comprehensa, et vocabulis bis mille ad minimum aucta ; a Nathanaele Dhuez, in idioma gallicum traducta, Editio postrema, Paris : Claude Thiboust, 1659. In- 12 of [10], 199, 5 p. title in red and black. Full glazed calf, boards finely decorated with a framing roulette and a fleuron pushed in cold, spine decorated with gilt fillets and roulette, gilt title, gilt roulette on the edges, all edges gilt, marbled paper lining, white paper endpapers (late 18th century binding). Slight wear to the corners, slightly rubbed headbands. Rare edition (only one copy in OCLC, at the BNF). Famous work, which established language didactics as an autonomous discipline. A leader of Czech culture in the 17th century, Comenius (1592-1670) was a humanist, philosopher, theologian, founder of modern pedagogy, poet and theorist of the verbal art, reformer and printer.
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