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KANT (IMMANUEL) Critik der reinen Vernunft [Critique of Pure Reason], FIRST EDITION, Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoh, 1781 image 1
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KANT (IMMANUEL)
Critik der reinen Vernunft [Critique of Pure Reason], FIRST EDITION, Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoh, 1781

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KANT (IMMANUEL)

Critik der reinen Vernunft [Critique of Pure Reason], FIRST EDITION, woodcut device on title, head- and tail-pieces, 2 small holes an faint stamp in upper blank corner of title-page, p.379 with one word struck through in ink and corrected in the margin in an early hand, early half calf over pasteboards, gilt morocco spine label, red edges, rubbed [Norman 1197; PMM 226], 8vo, Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoh, 1781

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FIRST EDITION OF CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON, KANT'S MOST INFLUENTIAL WORK. "Kant's great achievement was to conclude finally the lines on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the eighteenth century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive system of dealing with the problems of philosophy... [His methods] dominated western philosophical thought throughout the nineteenth century, as they do today" (PMM).

Provenance: Noel Kemp Smith (1872-1958, Scottish philosopher), with a loosely inserted 2-page autograph letter dated 15 March 1929 to "Miss Macleod", thanking her for "procuring for me a copy of the 1st edition of Kant's Critique... the copy you send is in excellent condition... P.S. Please convey to the owner my thanks for the great favour he has done me". Kemp Smith was appointed to the chair of logic and metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh in 1918, a post he held until his retirement in 1945. In 1918 he published Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason', and his translation of Critique was published in 1929.

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Footnote should read Norman NOT Noel Kemp Smith

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