Immanuel Kant – Critik der reinen Vernunft. Riga: Hartknoch, 1781
First edition of Kant’s greatest work, the Critique of Pure Reason, widely considered the most influential book in philosophy since Aristotle. Warda 59; Adickes 46. ‘Kant does, I must say, make writers like Locke and Berkeley, and indeed Hume, excellent though they are, look to me rather like amateurs’ (Sir Geoffrey Warnock in Magee, The Great Philosophers, BBC Books, 1987, p. 187).