KANT IMMANUEL Autograph Inscription unsigned a dedication to

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KANT, IMMANUEL. Autograph Inscription, unsigned, a dedication to his one-time student Carl Gottlieb Fischer, in Latin, on a blank leaf excised from a copy of his Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft. At the bottom of the page is an inscription by Secretary of the Royal Library at Königsberg Justus Florian Lobeck, in German, dated June 15, 1850, attesting that the rare Kant autograph was gotten from the volume that was gifted to Fischer. 1/2 page, 8vo; marginal ink stain at lower left, faint scattered dampstaining. Np, [circa December 1793]

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"VIRO / docto, cordato, integerrimo, / Carol. Theophil. Fischer, / Christianismi veri / Praeconi ac Exemplo, / Amico exoptatissimo, / libellum hunc / D[at].D[icat].D[edicat]. / auctor."
Fischer (1745-1801) was a hospital priest in Königsberg from 1787 and an admirer of Kant. In a letter from him to Kant on January 29, 1794, Fischer thanks him for the "gift of Die Religion . . . from the hand of its author" (Bonner Kant-Korpus at Bonn University).
with--3 letters concerning the present lot from Kant scholar Arthur Warda to a previous owner, 1924.