G.E.M. Anscombe – Intention. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1957
8vo, ix, [i], 93 pp., original printed wrappers with a few marks, small hole in front cover and spine somewhat darkened, internally very clean.
Immanuel Kant – The First Critique, 1781
Critik der reinen Vernunft. Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1781.
Immanuel Kant – The Second Critque, 1788
Critik der practischen Vernunft. Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1788.
Immanuel Kant – The Third Critque, 1790
Critik der Urtheilskraft. Berlin und Libau: Lagarde und Friederich, 1790.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte – Ueber den Begriff der Wissenschaftslehre, 1794
Ueber den Begriff der Wissenschaftslehre oder der sogenannten Philosophie, als Einladungsschrift zu seinen Vorlesungen über diese Wissenschaft. Weimar: Industrie-Comptoir, 1794. 8vo, 68 pp., contemporary blue paper wrappers with expected wear to spine, ownership inscription of F. Rausch in top margin of title-page, uniform browning, faint old marginal pencil stripes on a few pages, a very good copy.
René Descartes – Specimina philosophiae … Passiones Animae, 1664
Specimina philosophiae: Seu dissertatio de methodo rectè regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: Dioptrice, et Meteora, ex Gallico translata, & ab auctore perlecta, variisque in locis emendata. Ultima Editio cum optima collata, diligenter recognita, & mendis expurgata. Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1664 [bound with] Passiones Animae. Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1664.
Salomon Maimon – Die Kathegorien des Aristoteles, 1794
Die Kathegorien des Aristoteles. Mit Anmerkungen erläutert und als Propädeutik zu einer neuen Theorie des Denkens dargestellt. Berlin: Ernst Felisch, 1794 [bound with] Primavesi, Karl Ludwig: Beiträge zur Erläuterung und Prüfung des Kantischen Sistems in sechs Abhandlungen. (Hrsg. Von F. N. Baur.). Gotha: Ettinger, 1794.
Kant – Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft. Riga: Hartknoch, 1786
First edition of The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, intended by Kant as a first step towards a projected-but-never-completed metaphysics of nature. Adickes 64.
Leibniz – Sammelband of five works by Leibniz, Löscher, Wolff, Knutzen and Köselitz, 1732-1753
8vo, c. 950 pp., 18th-century half vellum, first text with frontispiece portrait of Leibniz, uniform light browning (a little heavier in the first and last texts), generally very good copies in an attractive contemporary binding.
Leibniz – The correspondence with Clarke and the dispute with Newton, 1720
Recueil de diverses pièces, sur la philosophie, la religion naturelle, l’histoire, les mathematiques, &c. Par Mrs. Leibniz, Clarke, Newton, & autres auteurs célèbres. Amsterdam: Duvillard et Changuion, 1720.
2 volumes, 12mo, engraved frontispiece with portraits of the main authors, also an engraved portrait after Kneller of the dedicatee, Princess Caroline of Ansbach, [vi], xcviii, [ii], 409, [6]; [vi], 424, [14] pp., (vol. 1 pagination 161-5 repeated and 409-410 misnumbered 408-409), somewhat later vellum with red morocco labels, small hole in one spine, bookplates of Julius Gertig on pastedowns, title-pages printed in red and black, in the first volume worming from p. 200 onwards with loss of a few letters not affecting legibility, in the second volume some sections browned and some miniscule marginal worming, scattered light spotting throughout, still a very good copy, rare.