Rare German Children Instruction Recreative book Circa 1890

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Rare German Children Instruction Recreative book Circa 1890

10 X 11 inches approx.

Artist: M Nicolas bohny

The Basel pedagogue Bohny (1815-1856), who saw himself in the Pestalozzi tradition, created with this illustrative book, which was widespread at the time,? Instructions for looking, thinking, arithmetic and speaking for children from two and a half to seven years old approximately and provided it with a kind of instruction manual. The reason why the picture book is new, he wrote in the foreword, is because his key questions about the pictures, which are printed for the adults, put counting and ordering in the foreground. The children should be encouraged to look at the pictures individually, to name numerical relationships and distinguishing features and to solve simple arithmetic problems. Today the book is considered to be one of the first set theories. "Each sheet is divided into two or three friezes and has a counting task in several pictures with text printed underneath. Rumann 53; Stuck-Villa II, 15 (14th edition, 1885). 26 x 30 cm. Tit., 36 pages with over 400 color illustrations in color lithography, OHLnBd. with multi-colored cover illustration, corners slightly rubbed. Mirror with old Buchh stamp. Except for a few finger stains on the lower sheet margins. Esslingen & Münic, JF Schreiber o. J. [ca 1890]., 1890. Rumann 53; Stuck-Villa II, 15 (14th edition, 1885). 26 x 30 cm. Tit., 36 pages with over 400 color illustrations in color lithography, OHLnBd. with multi-colored cover illustration, corners slightly rubbed. Mirror with old Buchh stamp. Except for a few finger stains on the lower sheet margins. Esslingen & Münic, JF Schreiber o. J. [ca 1890]., 1890.



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