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Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1931. First Edition. modern boards. Very good. HUSSERL, Edmond, Peiffer, Gabrielle & LEVINAS, Emmanuel [Tr.], Méditations Cartésiennes: Introduction a la Phénoménologie. Librairie Armand Colin, Paris, 1931. VII + 136. Octavo, FIRST EDITION. Blank leaf + TP + [v] – vii + [1] – 136 + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First Edition. Scarce first printing of Husserl`s lectures at the Sorbonne, in the Amphithéatre Descartes on February 23 and 25, 1929. In these lectures Husserl states: "France's greatest thinker, René Descartes, gave transcendental phenomenology new Impulses through his Meditations; their study acted quite directly on the transformation of an already developing phenomenology into a new kind of transcendental philosophy. Accordingly one might almost call transcendental phenomenology a neo-Cartesianism, even though it is obliged — and precisely by its radical development of Cartesian motifs — to reject nearly all the well-known doctrinal content of the… Read More

Chemnitz: Schmeitzner, 1879. First edition. Very Good +/none. The Second “Aphoristic” Work – the “Anhang” to MenschlischesNIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, Anhang: Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche (Human, All Too Human A Supplement: Mixed Opinions and Maxims). Schmeitzner, Chemnitz, 1879. TP + [3]-163. Octavo. First Edition (Schaberg 31).There were approximately 350 copies of the first edition in the first issue state.The present work was conceived as an addendum to the previous book and it continues Nietzsche’s incisive observations and evaluations on any number of topics, once again presented in the famous aphoristic style that characterizes these works of Nietzsche’s middle period, the works for “free spirits.” Nietzsche saw this book so integrally as a continuation of the first Menschliches Allzumenschliches that he suggested to his publisher that it simply continue the pagination… Read More

Chemnitz: Schmeitzner, 1878. First Edition. contemporary boards. Very good. Nietzsche’s First “Aphoristic” Work and His Introduction of “Perspectivism” NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Menschliches, Allzumenschliches. Ein Buch für freie Geister (Human all too Human. A Book for Free Spirits). Schmeitzner, Chemnitz, 1878. 1 blank leaf + half title + TP + 1 leaf = Vorrede + 1 leaf = Inhalt + 1 leaf = half title + [3] – 377 + [378]= Printer’s information + 1 leaf = publisher's advertisements + 1 blank leaf. Octavo. First Edition, First Issue, Schaberg 29. Includes initial half title before the full title page and the “eere” correction, cut and pasted by Schmeitzner over “menon” (a non-word) to create “meere” (sea) on p290 aphorism 431, and advertisements. Only 489 copies of this first edition, first issue, as the remaining 511 of the original 1000 first edition copies were sold to E. W. Fritzsch in 1886 for use in a new edition with new title page and without the ads. Thus, this copy is… Read More

Berlin: Haude und Spener, 1786. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Recasting of Genesis Muthmaßlicher Anfang der Menschengeschichte” (Conjectural Beginning of Human History), in Berlinische Monatsschrift. Haude und Spener, Berlin, 1786. 12mo. First Printing [Warda 101]. First printing of Kant's essay on 'The Conjectural Beginning of the Human Race’ where, following the book of Genesis, he speculates as to the origins of humanity. CONDITION: Very good or better with frontispiece portrait. In contemporary pale boards, rubbed at extremities and corners worn, spine a little darkened, with gilt rules and red label, outer leaves slightly foxed, elsewhere uniform light age-toning. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST