"Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung."

Wittgenstein's first published work, the earliest iteration of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in the extremely rare journal format

First edition, first issue, of the extremely rare German language journal publication of Wittgenstein's earliest published work, published as pages 185-262 of volume XIV, parts 3 & 4 of Ostwald's Annalen der Philosophie, the entire issue paginated 185-308, plus the title page and table of contents leaf for the whole volume. The journal further includes two works by A. Ölzet-Newin, one by Fritz Dehnow, a review of a new book by Joseph Petzold, and the contents page for the full four-part journal.

It was published in book form the following year with parallel English translation by C. K. Ogden and F. P. Ramsey under the title Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

Bertrand Russell's foreword for the edition secured the publication of Wittgenstein's work. "'In any other case I should have declined to accept the article', Ostwald wrote to Dorothy Wrinch on 21 February: 'But I have such an extremely high regard for Mr Bertrand Russell, both for his researches and for his personality, that I will gladly publish Mr Wittgenstein's article in my Annalen der Naturphilosophie: Mr Bertrand Russell's Introduction will be particularly welcome'". Wittgenstein replied on 28 November: "'I must admit I am pleased my stuff is going to be printed'" (Monk, pp. 203-4).