Orbis Sensualium Pictus
This book, written by the Czech Bishop Johan Amos Comenius (1592-1670),
was first published in a German-Latin version in Nuremburg in 1658. It was
designed, through 150 illustrated chapters, to teach the student Latin with the
help of short, but memorable sentences in the child's own tongue. Considered
by some scholars to be the first picture book for children, the Orbis brought
into the home a complete world, combining subjects and modes of life from near
and far.
The frontispiece, title page, and two other pages from the English translation of the Orbis made by Charles Hoole (1672)
