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Fröbel, Wilhelm - Middendorff, Wilhelm. Preliminary exercises for finding figures. Course for drawing on the net. Handwritten manuscript, enclosed in a brochure with Middendorff's ownership note on the cover. With several example sketches in pen and pencil. Acceptance note next to the signature: Keilhau 1847. 8 pages closely written in brown pen. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. 2 loose sheets. Middendorff (1793-1853) worked closely with Fröbel in Keilhau for many years, and manuscripts in his hand are rare. - The present manuscript reflects the drawing course developed by Fröbel on a slate with a grid. Middendorff begins with sections A and B for vertical and horizontal lines, followed under C by extensive combinations such as angles, angular surfaces, extension to oblique lines and circles, right up to a crystal-like structure (these in pencil). At the end, a summary of the "Course and law of finding figures" in 27 sub-items. In 1826, Fröbel himself had only presented elementary initial exercises in his "Menschenerziehung" (Human Education); the actual "inventing" was reserved for the unpublished second part. Middendorff's manuscript summarizes the entire course in a condensed form and illustrated with figures. - Somewhat browned, well preserved. - Inserted in: Franz Keller. Spinoza and Leibnitz on the freedom of the human will. Erlangen 1847. 78 pp., 1 leaf. Printed original wrappers (spine with small losses, somewhat stained). - Corners creased throughout. VAT: #
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Fröbel, Wilhelm - Middendorff, Wilhelm. Preliminary exercises for finding figures. Course for drawing on the net. Handwritten manuscript, enclosed in a brochure with Middendorff's ownership note on the cover. With several example sketches in pen and pencil. Acceptance note next to the signature: Keilhau 1847. 8 pages closely written in brown pen. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. 2 loose sheets. Middendorff (1793-1853) worked closely with Fröbel in Keilhau for many years, and manuscripts in his hand are rare. - The present manuscript reflects the drawing course developed by Fröbel on a slate with a grid. Middendorff begins with sections A and B for vertical and horizontal lines, followed under C by extensive combinations such as angles, angular surfaces, extension to oblique lines and circles, right up to a crystal-like structure (these in pencil). At the end, a summary of the "Course and law of finding figures" in 27 sub-items. In 1826, Fröbel himself had only presented elementary initial exercises in his "Menschenerziehung" (Human Education); the actual "inventing" was reserved for the unpublished second part. Middendorff's manuscript summarizes the entire course in a condensed form and illustrated with figures. - Somewhat browned, well preserved. - Inserted in: Franz Keller. Spinoza and Leibnitz on the freedom of the human will. Erlangen 1847. 78 pp., 1 leaf. Printed original wrappers (spine with small losses, somewhat stained). - Corners creased throughout. VAT: #
