Geschichte der logik im Abendlande

Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1870. FIRST EDITION. With errata in Volume I. Original marbled boards, spines and corners worn; browning and spotting throughout. From the library of Correa Moylan Walsh with his signature dated December. 1884, Berlin, and another unidentified signature dated 1936, plus some handwritten notes in the first part of the first volume. First edition one of the most influential source books on the history of logic, never translated into English, covering from Aristotle to the end of fifteenth century. A monumental history of western logic, Prantl is concise and punctilious in presenting his sources. Critics argued that Prantl lacked in an understanding of formal logic and that he disliked the Stoics and the Scholastics, but his work offers a wide source of original Greek and Latin texts and is unquestionably historical in character.

Prantl (1820-1888), a German philosopher, was a strong defender of Hegelianism and an important commentator on Aristotle. He became doctor of philosophy at Munich Observatory where he taught from 1859. He defended Hegel in his works Die gegenwärtige Aufgabe der Philosophie (1852) and Verstehen und Beurteilen (1877).

Correa Moylan Walsh (1862-1936) was an American economist. In addition to a number of books on economics, he published works on feminism and socialism.