Kant (Immanuel) Critik der practischen Vernunft, first edition, title with woodcut floral ornament, partially obliterated ink ownership inscription and an ink ownership stamp to title, water-stained and lightly browned throughout, loose in contemporary limp boards, rebacked in ?hessian, short split to spine, boards soiled and rubbed, [Warda 112; Adickes 67], 8vo, Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1788. sold not subject to return.

⁂ First edition of Kant's second main work; being the second of his three 'Critiques'. It contains the first appearance of his famous statement: 'Der bestirnte Himmel über mir, und das moralische Gesetz in mir' ('The starry sky above me and the moral law within me').