"History of Logic" by Wilhelm Risse,1964

Wilhelm Risse was one of the greatest historians of logic of the 20th century.
"Risse possessed the rare ability to go to the core of his subject matter, defining and distinguishing, while ever attentive to the essential structures, controlling his inquiry. His subject matter was indeed immense. In fact, Risse set himself the task of taking up where Carl Prantl had left off a century before him, viz. to provide as complete as possible an exposition of all the treatises oil logic produced by Western Civilization from 1500 to 1780. Like Prantl, Risse never relied on the accounts of others. He travelled throughout Europe to read the books about which he was writing. For Risse, the word 'autopsy' was no trifle. This enterprise found its realization in the two volumes of Logik der Neuzeit (1964-70) and in the four volumes of Bibliographia logica (1965-78). In his later years, Risse concentrated his energies on a bibliographical inventory of all philosophical disciplines from the invention of book-printing to the year 1800, publishing, shortly before his death, the awesome nine volumes of Bibliographia philosophica vetus (1998).