8vo. viii, 304pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Booksellers ticket of Raymond Clavreuil of Paris to FEP, occasional marginal damp-staining to head of text-block.

The first edition of French jurist, philanthropist, and philosopher Joseph Marie Degérando (1772-1842) prize-winning essay on the generation of human knowledge, in which he tests, from an empirical standpoint, Kant's epistemology that certain ideas and principles are a priori, and finds the theory wanting.