Grundsätze der Moralphilosophie Uebersetzt und mit einigen Anmerkungen versehen von Christian Garve

Leipzig, In der Dyckischen Buchhandlung, 1772. FIRST GERMAN TRANSLATION. 8vo, 174 x 100 mms.,[xii], 420, later half calf, marbled boards, black leather label; joins worn and slightly tender, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn, with Ex Libris of Dr Gero Wildt on the verso of the title-page. David Hume described Adam Ferguson (1723–1816) as a "Man of Sense, knowledge, Taste, Elegance, & Morals," and when Ferguson settled himself in Edinburgh when he about 40, he was surrounded by like-minded intellectuals. After publishing his most imporant and influential An Essay on the History of Civil Society in 1767, and followed this up in 1769 with his classroom text book, The Institutes of Moral Philosophy for the Use of Students in the College of Edinburgh. This German translation is by Chrisopher Garve (1742 - 1798), who also traslated Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.