Kant first edition fetches €18,000

Bid to a record €18,000 (£15,660) in a May 15-17 series of sales held by Reiss & Sohn (18% buyer’s pemium) of Königstein, near Frankfurt, was a first edition of Immanuel Kant’s 'Critik der reinen Vernunft'.

Published in 1781 in Riga, the ‘Critique of Pure Reason’, as it is known in English, was a revolut…

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