Schreiben des Herrn Moses Mendelssohn in Berlin an den Herrn Diaconus Lavater zu Zuerich, nebst Anmerkungen ueber dasselbe von Otto Justus Basilius Hesse Past. zu Benneckenstein.

Contains Mendelssohn’s reply to Johann Lavater, published as part of the famous controversy between the two. This reply was originally issued by Friedrich Nicolai in 1770 in Berlin and has 32 pages; copies are to be found in various libraries. The present Halle edition, which includes a commentary by the priest Otto Julius Basilius, is rarer than the Berlin edition and no institutional copies include the unnumbered errata page at the end of the present copy.