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[Education - Lexicography] COMENIUS, Johannes Amos Portael der saecken en spraecken = Vestibulum rerum et linguarum [enl. ed. Jacob Redinger]. Amsterdam, G. de Royn, 8vo: [16]-156-[pp. (pp. 33-missing; toned, marginal spotting and soiling). Contemp. blind-stamped overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink (lower endpaper gone, revealing old writing on board). Good copy. Famous pictorial encyclopaedia for school children, with questions and answers, and extensive indexes - one of the major works of the Bohemian scholar Comenius (1592-1670), residing in Amsterdam. Engr. front. by Cr. de Passe. (of full-page engr. pl. with numbered illustrations. Ref. STCN Prov. Contemp. acquisition note dated "(front flyleaf). - Viollet-le-Duc (collector’s tick.).