77/2687 [Philosophy]. Kant, I. Critik der reinen Vernunft. Riga, J.F. Hartknoch, 1790, 3rd "verbesserrte" ed., XLIV,884p., contemp. publisher's boards.

- Paper over spine and boards partly worn off.

= First printing of the third edition of Immanuel Kant's major work, with "verbesserte" on title-page instead of "unveraenderte". "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" (PMM 226). Warda 61; cf. Norman 1167.