SCHOPENHAUER, ARTHUR. Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. Half-titles folding table and errata leaf in Volume 2. 2 volumes. 8vo, original cloth, spines faded, covers rubbed; contents toned. Leipzig, 1844 E1000-2000 Enlarged second edition of

SCHOPENHAUER, ARTHUR. Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. Half-titles folding table and errata leaf in Volume 2. 2 volumes. 8vo, original cloth, spines faded, covers rubbed; contents toned. Leipzig, 1844 E1000-2000 Enlarged second edition of Schopenhauer's major work, with50 additional chapters. "It aimed to present a complete philosophicalsystem, starting from a modified Kantian idealism and a metaphysics of the will embracing both the self (the microcosm) and the world ( the macrocosm), and moving on to present original doctrines concerning aesthetics, ethics, and the nature of existence" (REP). Printing and the Mind of Man 279 (1819 original edition).