Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller
Item #49063 Institutiones historiae philosophicae, usui academicae iuventutis adornatae. Editio secunda auctior et emendatior. Johann Jakob Brucker.
Institutiones historiae philosophicae, usui academicae iuventutis adornatae. Editio secunda auctior et emendatior
Institutiones historiae philosophicae, usui academicae iuventutis adornatae. Editio secunda auctior et emendatior

Institutiones historiae philosophicae, usui academicae iuventutis adornatae. Editio secunda auctior et emendatior

Leipzig: Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, 1756. Second revised. Hardcover. Octavo. [20], 884, [16, indices]pp. Woodcut printer’s device at title, head- and tailpieces throughout, printed marginalia. Contemporary half tree calf over marbled boards, gilt morocco lettering piece at spine, speckled edges. Covers lightly rubbed at extremities; occasional mild, mostly marginal, foxing. A very good, clean copy, attractively bound.

Second, revised edition. First appearing in 1747, this condensed version of the author’s five-volume Historia Critica Philosophiae (1742-67) was long employed as the standard “Philosophy 101” textbook in German schools throughout the later eighteenth century. A follower of Leibniz, the German protestant minister Johann Jakob Brucker (1696-1770) is generally credited with establishing the history of philosophy as an academic discipline in Germany. Bamberger notes that the sections on Spinoza and the Spinozists (pp. 675-679) present a relatively objective, if not novel, account.

Annotations: A laid-in leaf contains two pages of notes in Latin, citing a discussion of the cabalistic doctrine of the transmigration of souls found in De resurrectione mortuorum (1636), a work by the celebrated Amsterdam rabbi, Menasseh ben Israel.

Provenance: From the library of Gerard Schimmelpenninck, with his engraved bookplate. Very Good. Item #49063

References: Brunet 1:1284. Ziegenfuss, Philosophen-Lexikon 1:150. Cf. Bamberger, Spinoza, 413.

Price: $450.00

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