Search results for: 'the works'
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KANT, Immanuel. Critik der Urtheilskraft.
Frankfurt and Leipzig : 1792
Early edition, first published in 1790, in a contemporary German binding, fresh and unrestored.
The Critique of Judgement is Kant's third most important work after the critiques of Pure and Practical Reason. "The work consists of two main parts, the first dealing with the aesthetic judgment, the second with the teleological judgement or judgement... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 143996
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KANT, Immanuel. Metaphysical Works.
London : 1836
First editions in English, collected together and issued in 1836, marking the first publication of the Enquiry into the Proofs for the Existence of God. All three parts were printed in 1819 with their titles bearing that date, but only Logic and Prolegomena to Future Metaphysics were issued that year; in 1836 the remaining sheets of the Logic and Prolegomena... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 134287
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KANT, Immanuel. Critik der Urtheilskraft.
Berlin and Libau : 1790
First edition of the Critique of Judgement, Kant's third most important work after the critiques of Pure and Practical Reason, and the scarcest of the three.
"The work consists of two main parts, the first dealing with the aesthetic judgment, the second with the teleological judgment or judgment of the purposiveness in Nature; and it is of considerable... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 138455
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KANT, Immanuel. Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik,
Frankfurt and Leipzig : 1794
Early editions of these two works, first published in 1783 and 1785 respectively, in a contemporary German binding, fresh and unrestored.
Kant wrote the first work, his Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, as a clarification of the Critique of Pure Reason, which he believed to have been widely misunderstood. It became one of Kant's most influential... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 143993
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KANT, Immanuel. Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik,
Riga : 1783
First edition, second issue, the same year as the first, with the angel vignette headpiece on p. 3, and the staff-and-vine tailpiece on p. 222. Kant wrote his Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics as a clarification of the Critique of Pure Reason, which he believed to had been widely misunderstood on publication two years previously. It became one of... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 143861
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KANT, Immanuel. Critik der practischen Vernunft.
Riga : 1788 [& Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1790]
First editions of Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and On a Discovery in a pleasing contemporary binding. The former work established Kant's moral thinking as a cardinal reference in the successive development of ethics; the latter, comparatively little-known, is Kant's defence of his own philosophy against attacks made by Johann Augustus Eberhard.
In... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 141224
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KANT, Immanuel. Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft.
Frankfurt and Leipzig : 1794
Early edition of Kant's most influential work in the philosophy of science, first published in 1786, in a contemporary German binding, fresh and unrestored.
From the library, with posthumous bookplate to the front pastedown, of German politician Maximilian Joseph Pfeiffer (1875-1926). Pfeiffer served in the Reichstag intermittently from 1907... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 143995
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KANT, Immanuel. Critik der practischen Vernunft.
Frankfurt and Leipzig : 1795
Early edition of Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (first published in 1788), in a contemporary German binding, fresh and unrestored. The Critique was the second of Kant's critical works, in which he developed the concept of categorical imperative. It further established Kant's moral thinking as a cardinal reference in the successive development of... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 143962
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KANT, Immanuel. Critik der reinen Vernunft.
Frankfurt and Leipzig : 1794
Early edition of the supreme German philosophical work of the 18th century, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781, the text here based on Kant's revised second edition of 1787. This copy in a contemporary German binding, fresh and unrestored; from the library, with posthumous bookplate to front pastedown, of German politician Maximilian... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 143960
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KANT, Immanuel. Frühere noch nicht gesammelte kleine Schriften.
Linz : 1795 [& 1792]
First collected edition of the first work, and first edition in book form of the second, following publication in April that year in the Berlinischen Monatsschrift. The Frühere noch nicht gesammelte kleine Schriften collects together five of Kant's essays, first published from 1746 to 1795; it includes De Mundi Sensibilis, his inaugural dissertation... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 138465
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KANT, Immanuel. Kleine Schriften.
Neuwied : 1793
First collected edition of any of Kant's writings, comprising seven articles first published in the periodicals Berlinische Monatsschrift and Teutscher Merkur from 1784 to 1791, here extracted and published without his permission. These include "Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?" (first 1784, his famous definition of Enlightenment written... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 141222
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KANT, Immanuel. Ueber eine Entdeckung nach der alle neue Critik der reinen Vernunft durch eine ältere entbehrlich gemacht werden soll.
Königsberg : 1790
First edition of this relatively little-known work, published in the same year as the Kritik der Urtheilskraft. The German philosopher Johann Augustus Eberhard (1739-1809), a leading Wolffian, joined with other critics of Kant to found the Philosophisches Magazin, the main goal of which was to challenge Kant's philosophy. The Magazin published many... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 138460
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KANT, Immanuel. Critik der reinen Vernunft.
Riga : 1781
First edition of one of the most influential philosophy books ever published, the first version of the Critique of Pure Reason; a pleasing copy in a contemporary binding.
"Kant's great achievement was to conclude finally the lines on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the 18th century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive... Learn More£35,000.00Stock Code: 142695
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KANT, Immanuel. Critique de la Raison Pure.
Paris : 1835
First edition in French of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, here with a presentation slip from A. Durand and Pedone Lauriel, booksellers and publishers, to the front free endpaper of vol. I. Joseph Tissot's translation was surprisingly late, half a century on from the first publication of Kant's masterwork. The translation is taken from the seventh German... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 143530