MENDELSSOHN, Moses.

Philosophische Schriften.

Troppau, Joseph Georg Traßler, 1784.

Two volumes, 8vo, pp. I: 268, II: ‘167’ (recte 267), [1 (blank)]; sporadic foxing throughout and the occasional minor stain, but largely clean and crisp; contemporary sheep, spine richly gilt in compartments and with gilt red and green paper lettering-pieces, edges stained red, printed patterned endpapers, green ribbon placemarkers; some wear, small area of worming to lower joint of vol. I, but an attractive set; pencilled note in a contemporary hand on final blank of vol. I and a few pencilled marginal markings.

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Later edition, in an attractive contemporary binding, of the works of the German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786). First published in 1761 and here reprinted in the Silesian city of Troppau (now Opawa, Czechia), the collection includes Über die Empfindungen, Philosophische Gespräche, and Gedanken von der Wahrscheinlichkeit.

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