Ueber die Begründung der Ethik durch die Physik.
Franz von Baader
Munich, 1813
 
First edition. Contemporary paperboards - some rubbing, stains, and chips. Title page verso with a faded old library stamp. Pages moderately foxed, mostly at the margins. Overall, a Very Good sound copy. Schopenhauer’s engraved bookplate on the inside front cover. His lengthy handwritten entry on the flyleaf: 
 
“Not even a single poor thought in all this babble! This wretch's trick consists in trying to make us believe, through a pompous, difficult, ponderous, and pretentious style, that thoughts exist, but they are so subtle that they cannot be found.”
 
He also underlined a few areas of the text.
 
The German scholar, Eduard Grisebach, published a detailed inventory of Schopenhauer’s library in 1888. It reports three of Baader’s works, one of which is this copy. In the philosopher’s letters, he maintains a scathing opinion of Baader in his distinctive Schopenhauerian style. Books from the icon’s library are exceptionally scarce - this copy would be a unique jewel in any philosophy collection.