Fichte, Johann Gottlieb. The closed trading state. A philosophical draft as an annex to the doctrine of law, and a test of a future policy to be delivered. 11 Bl., 290 pp. 17 x 9.5 cm. Semi-leather d. C. (breathed, infested and with flaw) with gold-embossed RSchild. Tübingen, Johann Georg Cotta, 1800. Goat foot I, 341. Baumgartner-Jacobs 51. – Rarely first edition of the most important philosophical-state science treatise Fichte, which the author himself considered "as his best and most thought-out work". Long before Marx and Engels, Fichte designs a socialist community in its basics, of course more derived from the doctrine of law than from historical research. The task of the state sees Fichte not so much as the guarantee of ownership for the individual as rather the fair distribution of the goods, which are intended to prevent excessive wealth and thus poverty. Fichte recommends a self-sufficient economic system, which would prevent crises and wars. – Resolutions slightly leimschattig. Title with two etched stamps and first sheet with missing headbar. Slightly spotted, otherwise good specimen.