Interesting Copies of Kant’s First Critique and Leibniz’s Discourse

A few weeks before I first went up to university, I was given a haul of old philosophy books by a relative of a family friend. Among them were two very tired volumes full of arachnidan annotations and odd scraps of paper (something I tend to consider a plus).

First, Leibniz, George R. Montgomery (transl.), Discourse on Metaphysics, etc. (Chicago: Open Court, 1931), with the front cover fallen off but still present; second, Kant, Norman Kemp Smith (transl.), Critique of Pure Reason (London: Macmillan, 1929), with the front cover fallen off and left who knows where. The latter is a first edition of Kemp Smith’s notable translation, and so a very nice thing, but in a bad state.

New Acquisition: R. L. Nettleship, Philosophical Remains (1901)

Under this universal house-arrest, couriers scamper hither and yon to sustain the rest of us, who work—or not—from home. Which means that, while bookshops are closed, I was still able to order Richard Lewis Nettleship’s Philosophical Remains (second ed., London: Macmillan, 1901), which arrived, despite warnings of delay from Amazon, in only three days. Thanks very much to Savery Books of Brighton.