‎Critik der reinen Vernunft. - [PMM 226 - PURE REASON - CHANGING THE FACE OF PHILOSOPHY]‎

‎Riga, Hartknoch, 1781. 8vo. Comtemporary - possibly the original! - beige cardboard-binding with contemporary handwritten paper title-label to spine. Spine relaid, preserving the paper-label, with front hinge neatly reastored, perfectly matching the original paper. Smaller, hardly noticeable, restorations to back hinge and upper capital. All edges coloured in red. Front free end-paper with restorations to upper outer corner. Library-stamp (Stadt-Bibliothek Homburg) to recto and verso of title-page as well as blank part of f. a2r, all with deaccession-stamps over. Internally exceptionally nice, clean, and fresh, with hardly any spotting of any kind. Overall an excellent copy. (24), 856 pp.‎

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‎Rare first edition of Kant's monumental main work, arguably the most important work in the history of philosophy since Aristotle.The ""Critique of Pure Reason"" took Kant about a decade to write, and the work is of the utmost scarcity. It is due to this work that Kant became world famous as one of the three or four greatest philosophers of all times, and the work fundamentally changed the face of philosophy. With this work philosophy is finally provided with a new and comprehensive way of dealing systematically with the problems of philosophy. ""In 1770 Kant became professor of logic and metaphysics, and at this point there is a sudden falling off in number of his publications. The cause of this became clear eleven years later when ""The Critique of Pure Reason"" appeared"" and with it Kant became famous. 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... The influence of Kant is paramount to the critical method of modern 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 realized in the individual consciousness, demonstrated the operation of ""pure reason"", and the simplicity and cogency of his arguments achieved immediate fame."" (PMM 226). Hook & Norman 1197.PMM 226.Warda 59.‎

‎Critik der Urtheilskraft. Band 1 & 2 zus. in 1 Band. Neueste, mit einem Register vermehrte Auflage.‎

‎Gräß, 1797, kl. in-8vo, 390 S. + 5 Bl.: Inhalt des ersten Bandes; 258 S. + 2 Bl.: Inhalt des 2ten Bandes + 25 Blatt Register (d. l. leer), fester Original-Pappband d. Zeit.‎

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‎Critik der Urtheilskraft. - [ONE OF FOUR OR FIVE COPIES PRINTED ON SPECIAL PAPER]‎

‎Berlin u. Libau, Lagarde und Friederich, 1790. 8vo (204 x 135 x 60 mm). Near contemporary marbled paper binding with gilt green title-label to spine. Hinges and capitals neatly restored. Old ownership-stamp to title-page. Mid-nineteenth-century Viennese bookseller's label to pasted-down back end-paper. Occasional light foxing in some margins, otherwise clean and bright. Printed on special, heavy paper, making the volume nearly double the thickness of regular copies. LVIII, 476 pp., (1) f. (errata).‎

‎Extremely rare copy, printed on special paper, of the first edition of Kant's seminal ""Critique of Judgment"", the third and last of his critiques, which ""Kant himself regarded [..] as the coping-stone of his critical edifice"" it even formed the point of departure for his successors, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, in the construction of their respective systems."" (J.H. Bernard in the introduction to his translation of ""Critique of Judgment). THIS MAGNIFICENT COPY IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER WE HAVE SEEN - ONE OF ONLY FOUR OR FIVE PRESENTATION-COPIES PRINTED ON SPECIAL PAPER THAT KANT HIMSELF REQUESTED FROM THE PRINTER, TO BE GIVEN TO A HANDFUL OF NAMED RECIPIENTS. From a letter to Lagarde from January 21st 1790 (see ""Briefwechsel von Imm. Kant"", ed. Fischer, Müller, 1912, pp. 110-11), we know that Kant had requested 20 author's copies, four of them to be printed on special paper. While the book was in the press, Kant sent Lagarde a list of presentees to whom copies on special paper should be sent. He now named five recipients, so we assume that five copies were printed on special paper, instead of the original requested four copies. The recipients were: Count J.N. Windisch-Grätz, F.H Jacobi, K.L. Reinhold, L.H. Jacob and J.F. Blumenbach (see letter to Lagarde, March 25th, 1790, ""Briefwechsel von Imm. Kant"", ed. Fischer, Müller, 1912, pp. 126-7). As far as we know, none of these five presentation-copies have been traced and we have never seen one of them before. Neither do we know which of the five recipients received the present copy.Together with his two other critiques, the ""Critique of Judgment"" arguably constitutes the most important contribution to philosophy since Aristotle and Plato. Kant's seminal third critique was extremely influential from the time of its appearance - Goethe said said it was the first philosophical book ever to move him, and Fichte called it ""the crown of the critical philosophy"""" ""...not only did Goethe think highly of it, but it received a large measure of attention in France as well as in Germany on its first appearance. Originally published at Berlin in 1790, a Second Edition was called for in 1793"" and a French translation was made by Imhoff in 1796. Other French versions are those by Keratry and Weyland in 1823, and by Barni in 1846."" (J.H. Bernard). In the ""Critique of Judgment"", Kant develops philosophical aesthetics and teleology that comprises nature and art. This aesthetics fulfills an essential systematic function in the Kantian architectonic. It bridges the gap between reason and nature, thus serving as a complement to practical reason of which Kant had proposed a critique two years earlier.The third critique is essential to an understanding of Kant's project of a critical philosophy. It is here that he seeks to join the dimensions of human experience which he had laid bare in the two previous critiques. A number of the conceptual foundations he had laid from 1782 break down, as he tries to demonstrate that aesthetics mediates between the realm of sensibility and that of reason.In order to do so, he sets out to show that aesthetic intuition ranges over both realms. The key to this demonstration is the claim that the two realms are isomorphic. However, as Kant considers the aesthetic judgment of the products of man's artistic invention, he cannot fit them into the format of a teleology of nature. Instead, he develops a conceptual framework for aesthetic judgment which explains why the first section on the faculty of aesthetic judgment swelled to the point of dwarfing the section on the teleology of nature.In the third critique the tension which inhere in the project of a critical philosophy rises to the surface. The third critique thus provides us with an invaluable glimpse into the actual workings of the mental faculties that Kant attempted to chart in his philosophy. For this very reason, the third critique provided the point of departure for much of later idealist philosophy, especially that of Hegel whose speculative philosophy can be seen as an articulation of the topics which Kant had uncovered in the third critique. ""...the Critique of Judgement completes the whole undertaking of criticism" its endeavour is to show that there are a priori principles at the basis of Judgement just as there are in the case of Understanding and of Reason that these principles, like the principles of Reason, are not constitutive but only regulative of experience, i.e. that they do not teach us anything positive about the characteristics of objects, but only indicate the conditions under which we find it necessary to view them" and lastly, that we are thus furnished with an a priori philosophy of pleasure."" (J.H. Barnard). Warda: 125. ‎

‎DIE RELIGION INNERHALB DER GRENZEN DER BLOSSEN VERNUNFT.‎

‎ Friedrich Nicolovius, Konigsberg, 1793. In-8 p. (mm. 201x115), mz. pelle coeva con ang., fregi e titolo oro su tassello al dorso, tagli rossi, pp. XX,(2),296,(2). "Prima edizione" della più importante opera di Kant sulla filosofia della religione ("La religione entro i limiti della sola ragione").Se mai Kant fu un libero pensatore, lo fu in questopera; ma non erano i tempi, proprio nel momento in cui tutti i monarchi reazionari erano mobilitati contro la Rivoluzione e le idee giacobine, di pubblicare nella Prussia di Federico Guglielmo II unopera del genere, anche se era stata approvata dai teologi (evidentemente di manica larga) di Konigsberg, soprattutto avendo raggiunta una celebrità quale ormai aveva raggiunta K. E lAutore si ebbe dal re, istigato dal ministro Wollner, una severa reprimenda, con la minaccia di punizioni se avesse persistito in tale direzione. Kant non era forse un eroe, certo era, in fondo, un conservatore, molto rispettoso dellautorità costituita. Egli scrisse in un suo diario: Il ritrattare sarebbe viltà, ma il tacere, in un caso come questo, è dovere di suddito. E rispose al re che come suddito fedelissimo di S.M. si sarebbe astenuto dallo scrivere di filosofia religiosa. Ma la formula significava, per lui, un impegno preso personalmente con il re Federico Guglielmo II: impegno che doveva cessare alla morte di questo (1797), sì che K. riprese immediatamente la penna sullargomento, narrando tutta la faccenda nella Disputa delle Facoltà (1798) (così Diz. Autori Bompiani,II, p. 369). Alc. fioriture e/o arrossature intercalate nel testo, ma complessivamente esemplare ben conservato.‎

‎Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft.‎

‎Königsberg, Friedrich Nicolovius, 1793. 8vo. In contemporary cardboard-binding with title and author in contemporary hand to spine. All edges coloured in red. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. With light occassional brownspotting, overall a nice copy. XX, (2), 296, (2) pp. ‎

‎First edition of Kant's ""Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason"", the seminal work in which he develops his religion of reason and most fully accounts for his philosophy of religion. Here he argues that religion can be entirely grounded in reason rather than divine revelation. Originally published as a series of four journal articles the book consists of four parts in which Kant explores the parallels between revealed religion and philosophical theology.Warda 141.‎

‎Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft. Neue Auflage.‎

‎Neuweid, (O.Dr.). 1793. Gross-8°. XXIV S., 296 S. Halblederband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückenschild und wenig Rückenvergoldung.‎

‎Warda 144 - Eine von drei Nachdruckausgaben im Jahr der ersten Ausgabe. - Nachgebunden: Storr, Gottlob Christian:: Bemerkungen über Kant's philosophische Religionslehre. Aus dem Lateinischen. Nebst einigen Bemerkungen des Uebersezers über den aus Principien der praktischen Vernunft hergeleiteten Ueberzeugungsgrund von der Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit einer Offenbarung in Beziehung auf Fichte's Versuch einer Critik aller Offenbarung. Tübingen, J.G. Cotta. 1794. VI S., 1 Bl., 240 S., 1 S. Verbesserungen. - Erste Ausgabe. - Mit dezenten Bleistiftanstreichungen. Gutes Exemplar.‎

‎Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft. Vorgestellt. Neue Auflage.‎

‎Frankfurt und Leipzig 1794. 8°. XXII S., 1 Bl. Inhalt, 248 S. Schlichter Pappband der Zeit.‎

‎Warda 147. - Unerlaubter Nachdruck. - Durchgehend mässig stockfleckig. Fliegender Vorsatz mit Eckausschnitt. Einband bestossen und beschabt.‎

‎Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (translated with an introduction by Lewis White Beck)‎

‎, Macmillan/ Library of Liberal Arts 1990 xxx + 90pp., softcover, 2nd ed., 20cm., good condition, F58097‎

‎Kant's handschriftlicher Nachlass.‎

‎Band 2/1, 2/2, 3-7, 9/2 in 8 Bänden. Berlin, de Gruyter 1923-1942. Gross-8°. Band 2-7 in Originalhalblederbänden, Band 9/2 in Broschur.‎

‎"Kant's gesammelte Schriften Band XV-XX und XXII." - Fotomechanischer Nachdruck 1971. - Ungelesen. Der Broschurband am Rücken geklebt.‎

‎La pace, la ragione et la storia. Collana Biblioteca Federalista.‎

‎ Bologna, Società Editrice il Mulino 1985, 215x135mm, 161pagine, in brossura. Ottimo stato. ‎

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‎Logik - ein Handbuch zu Vorlesungen.‎

‎Königsberg, Nicolovius, 1800. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Gilding a bit faded. XXIV,232 pp. Clean and fine. A good copy with wide margins.‎

‎First edition, second impression (errata corrected).Warda: 207.‎

‎Logik. En Haandbog til Forelæsninger.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, K. H. Seidelin, 1803. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Wear to extremities. First and last leaves brownspotted, otherwise internally nice and clean. (8), VIII, XVIII, 310 pp.‎

‎First Danish translation of Kant's Logic, which serves as an important introduction to philosophy, presenting both the terminological and structural basis for his philosophical system, and offering an invaluable key to his main works, particularly the three Critiques.From the library of Danish philosopher and author Carl Henrik Koch.‎

‎Metaphysische Anfangsgrunde der Naturwissenschaft. Dritte Aufl.‎

‎Lpz., Hartknoch, 1800. Cont.boards. XXIV, 125 pp.‎

‎Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft. Zweyte Auflage.‎

‎Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1787. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, marbled boards.Titlelabel gone, but spine fine. XXIV,158 pp., textfigs. Internally fine and clean.‎

‎Second edition. - Warda 105 (""apodictische"", not ""apoditisch=""). Here Kant made the distinction between ""relative space"" and ""absolute space"", and hereby reformulating Newton's idea of ""absolute space"".‎

‎Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaftr. Neueste Auflage.‎

‎Frankfurt und Leipzig. (O.Dr.). 1794. XIV (recte XXIV) S., 148 (recte 152) S. Halblederband der Zeit mit rotem Rückenschild und wenig Rückenvergoldung.‎

‎Warda 106. - Nachdruckausgabe. - Papier vereinzelt schwach fleckig. Hübsches Exemplar.‎

‎Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre. - [KANT'S PHILOSOPHY OF LAW]‎

‎Königsberg, Friedrich Nicolovius, 1797. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A very nice and clean copy. XII, LII, (3), 56-235, (1) pp. ‎

‎The first edition of Kant's influential philosophy of law (or right), his ""Rechtslehre"", which appeared as the independent first part of his ""Metaphysik der Sitten"". Kant's ""Rechtslehre"" is explained as a system of the principles of law, in which Kant applies the foundational notions developed in, for instance - and most notably, his ""Critique of Pure Reason"".In this important work, Kant seeks the general and necessary principles of law/right, those that are given through the pure reason a priori, and he determines the degree to which these principles found the empirical praxis of law/right. After having determined the general principles, he discusses their application to private law as well as institutional law. The work thus continues to be of great importance to the philosophy of law.The present copy with the colophon on the second-last page (and with the errata), as explained by Warda (note 18) - there is no precedecy between copies with/without the colophon.Warda 171.‎

‎Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Tugendlehre.‎

‎Königsberg, Nicolovius, 1797. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. All edges coloured in red. Wear to spine. Small stamp to verso of title-page, internally nice and clean. X, 59, (4), 64-190, (1) pp. ‎

‎First edition, constituting the second part of Kant’s Metaphysik der Sitten (Metaphysics of Morals), published in the same year as his ”Rechtslehre”. The present work deals with duties of virtue - those moral obligations which cannot be externally enforced but belong to the inner sphere of freedom. Kant systematically examines both duties to oneself (self-preservation, cultivation of talents, self-respect) and duties to others (beneficence, gratitude, sympathy, respect). In doing so, he provides one of the most influential formulations of a deontological ethics grounded in autonomy and reason. Warda 176‎

‎Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Tugendlehre. Zweyte verbesserte Auflage.‎

‎Königsberg, Nicolovius, 1803. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back. Lightly rubbed. Corners bumped. (4),X,(1),188 pp.‎

‎Warda: 178. As it is part 2 of ""Die Metaphysik der Sitten"", it has all 3 titlepages.‎

‎Om Kånslan of det Sköna och Höga. Öfwersättning.‎

‎Sth., 1796. Nyere hshirtbd. 102 pp. Første svenske udgave.‎

‎Physische Geographie. Ersten Bandes erste Abtheilung, welche die mathematischen Vorkenntnisse und die allgemeine Beschreibung der Meere enthält (+) Ersten Bandes zweite Abtheilung.‎

‎Mainz & Hamburg, Vollmer, 1801. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. Wear to boards, part of the marbled paper worn off. Internally with occassional brownspots, but generally nice and clean. VI, 264, (2), 323, (3) pp. ‎

‎The first authorized edition of these geographical treatises was published in response to Vollmer's unauthorized 1801 edition (i.e. the present). Kant was among the pioneering scholars to integrate geography into university curricula, delivering lectures on the subject from 1756 to 1796. In 1757 he began teaching geography, making him one of the earliest academics to establish it as an independent discipline.Geography became one of Kant’s most popular lecture topics, and in 1802, Friedrich Theodor Rink compiled and published the present work based on Kant's lecture notes. After becoming a professor in 1770, Kant broadened his lecture topics to include natural law, ethics, anthropology and other fields. Warda 210.‎

‎PROLEGOMENA zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können. Hrg. on Karl Vorländer.‎

‎Hamburg, Felix Meiner, Philosophische Bibliothek, 1954, in-8 hardcover, no dj, XLI + 200 pp. Cover in very good condition, inside in good condition (notes).‎

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‎Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können.‎

‎Frankfurt und Leipzig. (O.Dr.). 1794. 222 S., 1 w. Bl. Halblederband der Zeit mit rotem Rückenschild und wenig Rückenvergoldung.‎

‎Warda 78. - Nachdruckausgabe nach den 3 Drucken von 1783. - Hübsch gebunden und sauber.‎

‎Prolegomena zu einer jeder künftigen Metaphysik die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können + Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft. Zweyte vermehrte Auflage + Der Streit der Facultäten in drey Abschnitten.‎

‎Riga, bey Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1783 + Königsberg, Friedrich Nicolovius, 1794 + 1798. 8vo. Bound together in one slightly later full green cloth binding with gilt title to spine: Kant/ Religion/ und/ Metaphysik. A bit of wear to extremities and a bit of brownspotting throughout. But all in all a harmonious and nice ""Sammelband"" of three of Kant's important works. With stamp (Studentersamfundet"") to front free end-paper and to all three title-pages. 1) Woodcut title-vignette, woodcut flower-and putti-headpiece on p. 3 and woodcut end-vignette (ornamentail piece with flowers). 222 pp. 2) With contemporary ownership-signature to title-page. XXVI, (4), 314, (2, -errata) pp. 3) With contemporary ownership-signature to title-page (same as previous work: v. Holmfeld""). XXX, 205 pp.‎

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‎The three works together constitute an excellent introduction to the full range of Kant works and are all of the utmost importance to the understanding of his philosophy:1) First edition, third issue, of Kant's masterpiece, the more popular exposition of the ideas presented in his main work ""Critik der reinen Vernunft"" (1781). Three variants of the first edition are known to exist, distinguishable by head- and tailpieces, and this is the third one listed in Warda, i.e. Warda 77.This work constitutes a more comprehensible exposition of the main thoughts of Kant's ""Critique of Pure Reason"", and it is probably one of the most frequently read and approachable of his works. After having received immense negative critique and having been misunderstood with the first edition of the ""Critique of Pure Reason"", Kant wrote his ""Prolegomena"" as a defense and explanation, and he later incorporated much of it into the second edition of the ""Critique of Pure Reason"""" -it is with the ideas expounded in this work that Kant becomes world-famous. ""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... The influence of Kant is paramount in the critical method of modern philosophy. - No other thinker has been able to hold with such firmness the balance between speculative and empirical ideas... "" (PMM 226). Warda: 77. 2) The improved and enlarged second edition of Kant's seminal work, in which he develops his religion of reason and most fully accounts for his philosophy of religion.The ""Religion within the Bounds of Mere Reason "" originally appeared in 1793 but was enlarged and revised by Kant himself, and it appeared in the definitive second edition on 1794. It is this second edition which became the standard version of the text.The work is constituted by four essays, in which Kant accounts for relationship between the moral doctrines that he had developed in his works of moral philosophy and his understanding of religion. One of his most frequently cited conclusions is that even though morality in itself does not need religion, morality will still inevitably lead to religion.""The work in which Kant offers his most extensive and systematic treatment of religion from the perspective of his critical philosophy is ""Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason"". In addition to its importance in the development of Kant's view of religion as discussed below, this work is notable because of the controversy over censorship that attended its publication, the reprimand then given to Kant in the name of the Prussian emperor, Friedrich Wilhelm II, and Kant's pledge not to publish on matters of religion, which he later considered abrogated upon the death of the emperor in 1797."" (SEP).Warda: 145.3) First edition of the last book that Kant himself published (together with his simultaneously published lecture ""Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht""), in which he defends the Faculty of Philosophy against those of Theology, Law, and Medicine, claiming that Philosophy is superior in that it is the only of them that pursues truth in stead of usefulness. Criticizing the contemporary practice at the universities, he argues that the disciplines of the humanities and sciences, which are those collected in the Faculty of Philosophy, ought to be free from censorship or any form of state control, both in teaching and research. Warda: 193‎

‎Prolegomena zu einer jeder künftigen Metaphysik die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können. - [MAIN WORK OF GERMAN IDEALISM]‎

‎Riga, bey Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1783. 8vo. In contemporary full sprinkled calf with gilt lettering to spine. Spine and edges of boards with wear. Small repair to lower margin of first two leaves, not touching text. Small worm-tract to upper margin of first 18 ff. A with marginal underlinings in pencil. 222 pp.‎

‎The rare first edition, first issue, of Kant's masterpiece, the more popular exposition of the ideas presented in his main work ""Critik der reinen Vernunft"" (1781). Three variants of the first edition appeared in the same year, distinguishable by head- and tailpieces"" this is the first, as described in Warda, 75.This work constitutes a more comprehensible exposition of the main thoughts of Kant's ""Critique of Pure Reason"", and the ""prolegomena"", being one of the most frequently read and most approachable of his works, also became one of Kant's most influential. It is responsible for spreading his thoughts among a much wider audience than his other works. After having received immense negative critique and having been misunderstood with the first edition of the ""Critique of Pure Reason"", Kant wrote his ""Prolegomena"" as a defense and explanation"" he later incorporated much of it into the second edition of the ""Critique of Pure Reason"". It is with the ideas expounded in this work that Kant becomes world-famous. ""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... The influence of Kant is paramount in the critical method of modern philosophy. - No other thinker has been able to hold with such firmness the balance between speculative and empirical ideas... "" (PMM 226). Warda 75.‎

‎Sämtliche Werke. Hrsg. von Felix Gross. In 6 Bänden.‎

‎Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1923-24, pt. in-8vo, Original-Leinenband. OU. Schönes Exemplar.‎