FROEBEL, FRIEDRICH WILHELM AUGUST. Manuel pratique des jardins d'enfants à l'usage des institutrices et des mères de famille, composé sur les documents allemands par J.-F. Jacobs. Brussels: Claassen, 1859. Engraved frontispiece and 81 plates (a few in blue ink) representing paper folding, cutting, weaving, drawing, use of blocks, etc.; and a 14 pp. musical score by Norbert Kohl. Square 8vo, half morocco, covers somewhat worn; front hinge cracked, first few leaves frayed and browned at edges and with some glue stains along gutters; cloth folding case. FIRST FRENCH EDITION of Froebel's Mutter-und Kose-Lieder. With introduction by Baroness de Mahrenholtz-Bülow, Froebel's patron who was instrumental in setting up the first kindergarten in Belgium (1859) on the model of Froebel's first German kindergarten (1837).