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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.

1) Miscellanea, ex ore & schedis illustris viri … Godofr. Guilielmi Leibnitii … quondam notata & descripta, cum ipsi in colligendis & excerpendis rebus ad historiam brunsvicensem pertinentibus operam navaret, Joachimus Fridericus Fellerus … Additae sunt … Epistolae gallicae amoebeae Leibnitii & Pelissonii de tolerantia religionum & de controversiis quibusdam theologicis, iampridem editae, nunc recusae. Quibus praemissum est supplementum vitae leibnitianae. Editio secunda. Leipzig: J.C. Martini, 1737. (441 pp. + index). Second edition, first published in 1718.

2) Valentin Ernst LÖSCHER (1674–1749): Introductio generalis in meliorem philosophandi rationem … Wittenberg: Schlomach, 1751. (72 pp.). First edition, rare. WorldCat 4 copies: Erlangen, Jena, Berlin, National Library of Scotland.

3) [Christian von WOLFF]: Discursus praeliminaris de philosophia in genere. Leipzig: Langenhem, 1732. (32 pp.). First separate edition, published in 1728 as part of a larger work.

4) Martin KNUTZEN (1713-51): Systema causarum efficientium seu commentatio philosophica de commercio mentis et corporis per influxum physicum explicando, ipsis illustris Leibnitii principiis superstructa. Leipzig: Christian Langenheim, 1745. (318 pp. + index). Very rare first publication of the dissertation defended at Königsberg in 1734 by the man who became Kant’s most influential teacher. See Kuehn, Kant: A Biography, pp. 78 ff.

5) Johann Augustin KÖSELITZ (1721-90): Kurze Beweise, dass der natürliche oder wirkliche Einfluss das wahrscheinlichste und richtigste Verhältniss zwischen Leib und Sele sey. Wittenberg und Zerbst: Samuel Gottfried Zimmermann, 1753. (30 pp.). First edition, rare. WorldCat 5 copies: Munich, Aurich, Regensburg, Erlangen, Ballerup.

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