Critik der reinen Vernunft.

KANT (Immanuel).

Critik der reinen Vernunft.

A FINE COPY OF KANT'S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

First edition. 8vo. [24], 856 pp., woodcut device to title page, woodcut head and tail pieces. Contemporary half polished calf with speckled paper covered boards, spine panelled with simple gilt rules, second panel lettered in gilt on red-brown polished calf label, red sprinkled edges (small area of expert repair to foot of front joint resulting from presumed worming damage with corresponding neat re-margining to gutter of title page and second leaf, small blue die-cut 19th century private library stamp and later inscription ‘W. N. am Bly?’ in black ink to title page, some occasional faint scattered browning, contents otherwise generally clean and crisp, a very fine copy). Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1781.

£47,500.00

KANT (Immanuel).

Critik der reinen Vernunft.

An exceptional example of the first edition of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, the first and most important of his three major works of critical philosophy, in which Kant first presented his system of transcendental idealism that would completely define the trajectory of western philosophy thereafter.

‘Kant’s great achievement was to conclude finally the lines on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the eighteenth century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive system of dealing with the problems of philosophy. … No other thinker has been able to hold with such firmness the balance between speculative and empirical ideas. His penetrating analysis of the elements involved in synthesis, and the subjective process by which these elements are realised in the individual consciousness, demonstrated the operation of ‘pure reason’; and the simplicity and cogency of his arguments achieved immediate fame’ (PMM).

Provenance: from the library

Warda, 59; Printing and the Mind of Man, 226.

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256718

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