DER BUNTE HANS

by Max Taube, Adolf Reinheimer

$1,200 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

Leipzig: Carl Reissner, circa 1880 . First edition of this delightful German color-learning board book, guided by an articulated paper doll — a rare survival. Very good. Item #36325 DER BUNTE HANS was evidently successful in its color-education aim: it is cited as the origin of a toddler's knowledge of the color yellow in an 1896 paper about infant development published by the Illinois Society for Child-Study. It is

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