|
Berkeley Edmund and Berkeley Dorothy Smith
Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press 1969. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 379; VG/no-DJ; dark green spine with gilt text; 3/4 bound binding with dark green spine and light green boards; cloth shows minor rubbing to edges; light shelf wear to exterior; text block has dark green endpapers; previous owner's stamped to head edge and ffep; interior clean; illustrated. 1309905. FP New Rockville Stock. The University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
Référence libraire : 1309905
|
|
|
Berkeley Edmund and Dorothy Smith
Dr. John Mitchell. The Man Who Made the Map of North America
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover in jacket. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches bound in blue cloth with pictorial end pages. Complete in 283 pages with some illustrations. . University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
Référence libraire : 76129
|
|
|
Berkeley Edmund and Dorothy Smith Berkeley
The Life and Travels of John Bartram: From Lake Ontario to the River St. John
Tallahassee: University Presses of Florida 1995. 3rd Printing. xvi 376p. b/w illus. maps original stiff printed wrappers. University Presses of Florida unknown books
Référence libraire : 045613 ISBN : 0813009952 9780813009957
|
|
|
BERKELEY Edmund and Dorothy Smith Berkeley
THE REVEREND JOHN CLAYTON A PARSON WITH A SCIENTIFIC MIND HIS WRITIN
BERKELEY Edmund and Dorothy Smith Berkeley. THE REVEREND JOHN CLAYTON A PARSON WITH A SCIENTIFIC MIND HIS WRITINGS AND OTHER RELATED PAPERS. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia 1965. 8vo. Cloth. xv xlviii 170 pages. First edition. Definitive collection of the writings and letters of the noted seventeenth century Virginia clergyman and local botanist and scientist. Very good. unknown books
Référence libraire : 34444
|
|
|
BERKELEY EDMUND and Dorothy Smith Berkeley.
George William Featherstonhaugh: the first U.S. government geologist
Tuscaloosa and London: Alabama 1988. First edition 8vo pp. xv-xviii 357; frontis. portrait and 24 illus. in text; mint in jacket. Explorer and surveyor in America before 1850 Featherstonhaugh promoted the formation of the U.S. Geological Survey. Chapters on Minnesota and Wisconsin. <br/><br/> Alabama unknown books
Référence libraire : 12094
|
|
|
Berkeley Edmund and Dorothy Smith Berkeley.
John Clayton: Pioneer of American Botany.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina 1963. Octavo green cloth hardcover gilt letters ix 236 pp. Very Good with neat former-owner stamp & signature and former-owners published review pasted to rear endpaper in a Very Good dust jacket with light foxing. From jacket: As plant collector and early systematic botanist John Clayton 1694-1773 Cerk of Court of Gloucester County Virginia occupies a key position in the eighteenth-century international botanical circle. His chief monument is the Flora Virginica published in Leiden in 1739 and 1762. Compiled by J. F. Gronovius from plants and descriptions supplied by Clayton it is the first important North American flora and the only one devoted soley to Virginia. The University of North Carolina, (1963). hardcover books
Référence libraire : qms435
|
|
|
Berkeley Edmund C
Giant Brains or Machines that Think.
New York: John Wiley & Sons 1949. First edition second printing of this important work which popularized cognitive images of early computers. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Erwin Tomash with warmest greetings for more than 20 years together in the computer field from Ed Berkeley October 11 1975." The recipient Erwin Tomash was an engineer who co-founded Dataproducts Corporation which specialized in computer technology specifically printers and core memory units. He is recognized for his early pioneering work with computer equipment peripherals. Tomash led the creation of the Charles Babbage Institute and is responsible for The Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Technology and The Erwin Tomash Library. With Erwin Tomash's bookplate to the pastedown near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional association linking these two pioneers in the field. Edmund C. Berkeley became famous in 1949 with the publication of his book Giant Brains or Machines That Think in which he described the principles behind computing machines called then "mechanical brains" "sequence-controlled calculators" or various other terms and then gave a technical but accessible survey of the most prominent examples of the time including machines from MIT Harvard the Moore School Bell Laboratories and elsewhere. In Giant Brains Berkeley also outlined a device which some have described as the first "personal computer" Simon. Plans on how to build this computer were published in the journal Radio Electronics in 1950 and 1951. Simon used relay logic and cost about $600 to construct. The first working model was built at Columbia University with the help of two graduate students. Berkeley founded published and edited Computers and Automation the first computer magazine. He also created the Geniac and Brainiac toy computers. John Wiley & Sons hardcover books
Référence libraire : 111716
|
|
|
BERKELEY Edmund C Dick H. Brandon and Patrick J. McGovern
Proceedings Seminar on the Computer Industry for Security Analysts November 19 1964
Newtonville MA: International Data Corporation 1965. Near fine in printed vinyl binder. First Edition. Quarto sheets in three-ring binder. Advertisement for Honda laid in. Proceedings of an early commercially oriented computer conference held on November 19th 1964 in Newtonville Massachusetts. The notebooks describe a wide range of computer equipment and applications. Speakers included computer science pioneer and antinuclear activist Edmund C. Berkeley known for having designed "Simon" the first "personal computer" in 1950. In January 1963 Berkeley was also the first person in print to describe an image as "computer art" upon publishing an image created by Israeli computer scientist Efraim Arazi in the magazine "Computers and Automation". Co-speaker Patrick J. McGovern had begun the EDP Industry & Market Report a year prior in 1964; that publication would eventually morph into both Computer World and PC World as well as spawning the "For Dummies" book series. McGovern achieved massive financial success; at time of death in 2014 his net worth was estimated by Forbes at in excess of five billion dollars. Overall a fascinating document from just before the dawn of the microprocessor revolution. Newtonville, MA: International Data Corporation unknown books
Référence libraire : 22540
|
|
|
Berkeley Edmund C.
Electronic machinery for handling information and its uses in insurance. Offprint
1947. <p>Berkeley Edmund C. 1909-88. Electronic machinery for handling information and its uses in insurance. Offprint from Transactions of the Actuarial Society of America 48 1947. 36-52pp. 228 x 153 mm. Original printed wrappers a few tiny spots almost invisible staple-holes in front wrapper. Very good copy. Former owner's name-stamp Clifford J. Maloney on wrappers. </p> <p>First Edition Offprint Issue. The first published paper on the commercial application of electronic / electromechanical computing in private industry outside of the telephone company. Drawing on material that he would later publish in his famous Giant Brains or Machines that Think 1949 Berkeley described the four large-scale computing machines then in operation—MIT's Differential Analyzer; Harvard's Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator; the Moore School's ENIAC; and Bell Laboratories' Relay Calculator—and discussed the machines' information-processing capabilities and their potential uses in the insurance industry. "It is natural to call these machines mechanical or electronic brains and to speak of them as machinery that thinks. This new machinery is certain to have far-reaching effects in all fields where the handling of information is the bulk of the work. . . . Much of the material in this paper is taken from a forthcoming book on the subject by the present writer and is used by special permission of the publisher" p. 36. </p> <p>Berkeley a seminal figure in the history of modern computing was introduced to computing using punched-card machine methods while working as an actuary at Prudential Insurance. In 1942 he joined the Navy and was assigned to the Harvard Computation Laboratory where he worked with Howard Aiken on the Harvard Mark II. In 1946 Berkeley returned to Prudential where he helped create a prototype premium billing trial for the Harvard Mark I and participated in studies that led to Prudential's purchase of one of the first UNIVAC I computers. He also began working on Giant Brains and in 1947 founded the Association for Computing Machinery. In 1948 he left Prudential to found his own company and in 1951 he began editing and publishing Computers and Automation later renamed Computers and People the first periodical specifically devoted to computing. He also headed his own publishing firm consulted for industry and invented and sold several build-it-yourself electronic computers and small robots Simon Squee Tyniac Brainiac etc. as educational tools. In his later years he became known as the conscience of the computer industry through his often-expressed belief that computers should be used not for military or destructive purposes but only for the benefit of society. </p> . unknown books
Référence libraire : 43248
|
|
|
BERKELEY Edmund C.
Symbolic Logic and Intelligent Machines.
New York:: Reinhold 1959. 1959. 8vo. v 203 pp. Index. Cloth dust-jacket. Ex-library copy mostly rubber ownership stamps but in good working condition. Reinhold, (1959). hardcover books
Référence libraire : S3554
|
|
|
Berkeley George
Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion against those who are called Free-Thinkers
New Haven: From Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke & Co 1803. First American from the fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. 8vo. Contemporary tree sheep red morocco label gilt spine ornamented in gilt. Some rubbing remains of glue marks on pastedowns upper joint starting 2 pages advertisements of books available at Increase Cooke & Co. at back some light browning and offsetting. In a leather tipped brown cloth open end case. First American from the fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. 8vo. With a leaf concerning the "Character of the Work" by Timothy Dwight Yale College Dec. 23 1802. In 1728 Berkeley went to America to look into founding a college in Rhode Island. He lived on a farm outside Newport Rhode Island until 1731 when he returned to England. It was during his residence in America that most of "Alciphron" was written and many of the descriptions of scenery are of the Newport area. Berkeley was close friends with the American Samuel Johnson. Johnson's "Elementa Philosophica" "the first text book in philosophy to appear in English-speaking America" Cremin "American Education" p. 296 owed much to the influence of Berkeley. In 1733 Berkeley sent a large contribution of books to Yale for its library. "A finely written work in the form of dialogue critically examining the various forms of free-thinking in the age and bringing forward in antithesis to them his own theory which shows all nature to be the language of God" Ency. Brit. Colby Library Quarterly p. 233; Shipton and Mooney 3784. For the first edition: Jessop 16a; Keynes 15; Rothschild 374 From Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke & Co unknown books
Référence libraire : 65193
|
|
|
Berkeley George
Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion against those who are called Free-Thinkers
New Haven: From Signey's Press for Increase Cooke & Co 1803. First American from the fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. xiii i 15-388 pp. 8vo. Contemporary sheep red morocco label. Some rubbing 2 pages advertisements at back of books available at Increase Cooke and Co. some browning and offsetting of text generally light upper corner of free endpaper removed. In a leather tipped brown cloth open end case. First American from the fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. xiii i 15-388 pp. 8vo. With a leaf concerning the "Character of the Work" by Timothy Dwight Yale College Dec. 23 1802. In 1728 Berkeley went to America to look into founding a college in Rhode Island. He lived on a farm outside Newport Rhode Island until 1731 when he returned to England. It was during his residence in America that most of "Alciphron" was written and many of the descriptions of scenery are of the Newport area. Berkeley was close friends with the American Samuel Johnson. Johnson's "Elementa Philosophica" "the first text book in philosophy to appear in English-speaking America" Cremin "American Education" p. 296 owed much to the influence of Berkeley. In 1733 Berkeley sent a large contribution of books to Yale for its library. "A finely written work in the form of dialogue critically examining the various forms of free-thinking in the age and bringing forward in antithesis to them his own theory which shows all nature to be the language of God" Ency. Brit. Colby Library Quarterly p. 233; Shaw and Shoemaker 3784 From Signey's Press for Increase Cooke & Co unknown books
Référence libraire : 65195
|
|
|
Berkeley George
Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion against those who are called Free-Thinkers
New Haven: From Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke & Co 1803. First American from the Fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. 8vo. Contemporary calf red morocco gilt label. Spine worn rubbed some spotting and browning of leaves 2 pages advertisements for books available for sale at Increase Cooke & Co. with the signature of John S. Mabow and bookplate of Charles D. Spencer. In a leather tipped brown cloth open end case. First American from the Fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. 8vo. With a leaf concerning the "Character of the Work" by Timothy Dwight Yale College Dec. 23 1802. In 1728 Berkeley went to America to look into founding a college in Rhode Island. He lived on a farm outside Newport Rhode Island until 1731 when he returned to England. It was during his residence in America that most of "Alciphron" was written and many of the descriptions of scenery are of the Newport area. Berkeley was close friends with the American Samuel Johnson. Johnson's "Elementa Philosophica" "the first text book in philosophy to appear in English-speaking America" Cremin "American Education" p. 296 owed much to the influence of Berkeley. In 1733 Berkeley sent a large contribution of books to Yale for its library. "A finely written work in the form of dialogue critically examining the various forms of free-thinking in the age and bringing forward in antithesis to them his own theory which shows all nature to be the language of God" Ency. Brit. Colby Library Quarterly p. 233; Shaw and Shoemaker 3784 From Sidney's Press, for Increase Cooke & Co unknown books
Référence libraire : 65194
|
|
|
Berkeley George
Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion against those who are called Free-Thinkers
New Haven: From Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke & Co 1803. First American edition from the fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. 8vo. Contemporary sheep red morocco labels gilt ornamentation. Upper joint starting rubbed some spotting and browning of text two pages advertisements at back for books available at Increase Cooke and Co. upper inner hinge cracked with the signature of S. L. Crocker Jr. on the endpapers. In a leather tipped brown cloth open end case. First American edition from the fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. 8vo. With a leaf concerning the "Character of the Work" by Timothy Dwight Yale College Dec. 23 1802 first printed here not noted in BAL. In 1728 Berkeley went to America to look into founding a college in Rhode Island. He lived on a farm outside Newport Rhode Island until 1731 when he returned to England. It was during his residence in America that most of "Alciphron" was written and many of the descriptions of scenery are of the Newport area. Berkeley was close friends with the American Samuel Johnson. Johnson's "Elementa Philosophica" "the first text book in philosophy to appear in English-speaking America" Cremin "American Education" p. 296 owed much to the influence of Berkeley. In 1733 Berkeley sent a large contribution of books to Yale for its library. "A finely written work in the form of dialogue critically examining the various forms of free-thinking in the age and bringing forward in antithesis to them his own theory which shows all nature to be the language of God." Ency. Brit. Colby Library Quarterly p. 233; Jessop "Bibliography of Berkeley" 16H; Shaw and Shoemaker 3784 From Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke & Co unknown books
Référence libraire : 65196
|
|
|
Berkeley George
ALCIPHRON: OR THE MINUTE PHILOSOPHER. IN SEVEN DIALOGUES. CONTAINING AN APOLOGY FOR THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE CALLED FREE-THINKERS
London: Printed for J. Tonson 1732. 101-350;6358pp. Two volumes. Octavo. Contemporary calf. Engraved title vignettes. Ownership signature "J. Payne Jan. 24 1732/3" in each volume on front pastedown with authorship ascription in same hand in first as well as careful correction of the errata. Hinges cracked one board detached occasional light foxing otherwise a crisp large very nice set. First edition of Berkeley's attempt at the refutation of the current forms of free- thinking composed while he was resident in America and including some important observations relevant to that part of the world. The second volume also includes what is functionally the third edition of his ESSAY TOWARDS A NEW THEORY OF VISION first published in 1709. ROTHSCHILD 374. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 176n. ESTC T86056. Printed for J. Tonson unknown books
Référence libraire : WRCLIT35680
|
|
|
Berkeley George
ALCIPHRON: OR THE MINUTE PHILOSOPHER. IN SEVEN DIALOGUES. CONTAINING AN APOLOGY FOR THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE CALLED FREE-THINKERS
London: Printed for J. Tonson 1732. 141-356;821812215-351pp. Two volumes. Octavo. Contemporary calf. Engraved title vignettes. Three bookplates in each volume along with a faint old seminary stamp on each title scattered foxing joints a bit worn and cracked but cords sound; a good set. Second London edition of Berkeley's attempt at the refutation of the current forms of free-thinking composed while he was resident in America and including some important observations relevant to that part of the world. The second volume also includes what is functionally the fourth edition of his ESSAY TOWARDS A NEW THEORY OF VISION first published in 1709. KEYNES 17. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 176n. ESTC T86055. Printed for J. Tonson unknown books
Référence libraire : WRCLIT65559
|
|
|
BERKELEY George
George Berkeley: Lectures Delivered Before the Philiosophical Union of the University of California
Berkeley: University of California 1957. hardcover. very good. In Honor of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne 1685-1753. Ownership signature on 1/2 title. Berkeley: University of California Press 1957. Very good<br/><br/> University of California unknown books
Référence libraire : 173818
|
|
|
Berkeley George
Selections from Berkeley Annotated
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1899. 5th Edition Amended. An initroduction to the problems of modern philosophy for the use of students in colleges and university by Alexander Campbell Fraser. xlviii 336p. original burgundy cloth. Clarendon Press unknown books
Référence libraire : 024911
|
|
|
Berkeley George
Siris. Ubersetzt und herauswgegeben von Luise Raab und Dr. Friedrich Raab // original titlepage follows: Siris Eine Kette von sic see below Philosophischen Betrachtungen und Untersuchungen des Teerwassers und uber einige andere Fragen die damit zusammenhangen und von denen eine aus der anderen entspringt. Von Hochwurden Dr. George Berkeley dem Lordbischof von Cloyne &c &c Eine neue Ausgabe vermehrt und verbessert. Gedruct in Dublin Wiedergedruckt in London - Die ersten Beiden Zeilen in der ersten Auflage
Leipzig: Verlag von Felix Meiner 1913. xxiv 139p. plus a brief menu of publisher's offerings hardbound in 7.5 x5 inch grey boards with olive-drab backstrip neatly spine-titled possibly custom work certainly professional. Top edge tinted. Pastedown bears an unobjectionable old bookplate with scientific trimmings covers a little edgeworn label slightly rubbed a nice sound copy. Philosophische Bibliothek Band 149. Use "tar-water" to ameliorate plague symptoms. Berkeley addresses the question which sort of tar-water. Verlag von Felix Meiner unknown books
Référence libraire : 260247
|
|
|
Berkeley George
SIRIS: A CHAIN OF PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS AND INQUIRIES CONCERNING THE VIRTUES OF TAR WATER AND DIVERSE OTHER SUBJECTS CONNECTED TOGETHER AND ARISING ONE FROM ANOTHER . A NEW EDITION . Dublin Printed London Re- printed: For W. Innys and C. Hitch . 1744 bound with: Prior Thomas: AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE SUCCESS OF TAR-WATER IN CURING A GREAT NUMBER AND VARIETY OF DISTEMPERS; WITH REMARKS AND OCCASIONAL PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE SUBJECT. TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED TWO LETTERS FROM THE AUTHOR OF SIRIS SHEWING THE MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF TAR-WATER AND THE BEST MANNER OF MAKING IT
Dublin Printed London Re-printed: For W. Innys C. Hitch and M. Cooper . 1746. 1742; 45-88pp. Octavo. Modern half-calf and marbled boards. Faint blindstamp and ink shelf number the latter on verso of title of The Library of the Society for the Home Study of Holy Scripture and Church History first title leaf a trace foxed otherwise a very good copy. New i.e. Third London edition of the first title Keynes's variant A1b with "A Letter to T.P. ." on the verso of the title. This copy has p. 160 misnumbered '610'. The second title is also a "New Edition" i.e. the second London edition and exhibits Keynes's second corrected state of the title leaf: 'Holbourn'. Berkeley first noticed the use of tar-infused water during his residence in America and although cautious in his initial conclusions he soon became an advocate of its use as an economical aid for the betterment of the health of the Irish people. Although by no means wanting in exposition of Berkeley's larger philosophical considerations the practical aspects of SIRIS led to its being his most popular work and the investigation of tar-water generated a significant body of pamphlet literature in response well delineated by Keynes among which Prior's work is one of the most significant. ESTC cites Bowyer's ledger in reporting the edition of the first title consisted of 1000 copies and that of the second title 2000 copies. KEYNES BERKELEY 68 & 104. ESTC T45794 & T125698. For W. Innys, C. Hitch, and M. Cooper .. hardcover books
Référence libraire : WRCLIT65696
|
|
|
Berkeley George
Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of tar water
Dublin & London: W. Innys and C. Hitch 1744. 8vo. 174 2pp. 18th cent. calf rebacked corners worn endpapers renewed. Light toning. Bridgewater Library bookplate. New edition. W. Innys and C. Hitch unknown books
Référence libraire : 39792
|
|
|
BERKELEY GEORGE
The Analyst; Or A Discourse Addressed to An Infidel Mathematician. By the Author of The Minute Philosopher
London: Tonson 1734. first edition. contemporary calf. Very Good. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORKS IN THE HISTORY OF CALCULUS. In 1731 Berkeley returned to England from the New World where he had spent years working to open a new college with the support of a royal charter. Despite having funds earmarked for the college no funds were ever released and he had grown tired of the whole affair - and of those who held the money he was meant to receive. Moreover "reports of growing infidelity in English society to which he was always liable to give credence were fueled by the continuing bad faith of the government in failing to lodge the funds he considered legally his." Stewart.<br /> <br /> Perhaps pushed by this diminishing opinion of the English gentry he revisited his earlier attacks on the secular 'freethinkers' and composed The Analyst "an acute and influential critique of the foundations of Newton's calculus." Downing. As Stewart explains "Berkeley considered the theory incoherent and a disservice to mathematics but one which if unchecked might reinforce prevailing views on the divisibility of matter and support infidelity."<br /> <br /> Within the criticism Berkeley raises careful arguments which often employ sophisticated philosophical distinctions. For example as Andersen explains "Berkeley acknowledged that mathematicians who applied Newton's method of fluxions or Leibniz's calculus ended up with valid results. However . he considered their calculations to be based on incorrect assumptions and to violate the rules of logic." As such he wished "to explain why this may come to pass and show how Error may bring forth Truth though it cannot bring forth Science." Berkeley.<br /> <br /> However between these arguments we find marvelously snide often comedic complaints about the whole approach. For example: "Now to conceive a Quantity infinitely small that is infinitely less than any sensible or imaginable Quantity or than any the least finite Magnitude is I confess above my Capacity. But to conceive a Part of such infinitely small Quantity that shall be still infinitely less than it and consequently though multiply'd infinitely shall never equal the minutest finite Quantity is I suspect an infinite Difficulty to any Man whatsoever". Berkeley.<br /> <br /> The concepts of the infinitesimal quantities of calculus haunted Berkeley and he returned to it repeatedly in his criticism most notably in his famous passage near the end of the book where he memorably referred to such infinitesimals as "ghosts of departed quantities". <br /> <br /> Note: This is the true first edition printed in London in 1734. A Dublin edition was also published in 1734 but appears to be a reprinting with some changes of the London first see Wilkins 2002. These were the only editions published in Berkeley's lifetime.<br /> <br /> References: Andersen K. 2011 "One of Berkeley's arguments on compensating errors in the calculus." Historica Mathematica 38. Cajori F. 1919 A History of Mathematics. 2nd ed. revised and enlarged. Macmillan 1919; Downing Lisa 2020 "George Berkeley" The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Spring 2020 Edition Edward N. Zalta ed.; Stewart M. 2005. Berkeley George 1685-1753 Church of Ireland bishop of Cloyne and philosopher. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.; Wilkins D. 2002 edited version of The Analyst.<br /> <br /> London: J. Tonson 1734. Octavo contemporary full calf; custom box. Without errata leaf and final blank but with fragment of interesting binder's scrap showing ghost of part of the title page and partial blank bound in rear. With two manuscript corrections as usual on p. 85. Repairs to joints and spine; some spots of scattered foxing but text generally very clean. RARE. Tonson unknown books
Référence libraire : 2390
|
|
|
Berkeley George
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Open Court Publishing 1955. Good. Berkeley George. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. La Salle IL: Open Court Publishing 1955. 136pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Good. Scuffed covers bumped edges spine has small tears and light water stains with unmarked pages. . Open Court Publishing paperback books
Référence libraire : UBERTHR00tw
|
|
|
Berkeley George
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Bobbs-Merrill 1954. Very Good. Berkeley George. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. NY: Bobbs-Merrill 1954. 113pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing and bumping. Previous owner's name penned on first page. Bobbs-Merrill paperback books
Référence libraire : UHYLTHR00SJR
|
|
|
Berkeley George
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Library of Liberal Arts 1954. Good. Berkeley George. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. Indianapolis: Library of Liberal Arts 1954. 113pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good. Sunned and creased with rubbed edges and penciled scribbles on rear cover. Faint stain in bottom edges of pages. Library of Liberal Arts paperback books
Référence libraire : UBERTHR02HMR
|
|
|
Berkeley George
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
The Library of Liberal Arts 1954. Good. Berkeley George. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. Indianapolis: The Library of Liberal Arts 1954. 113pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with rubbed edges. Former owner's name penned on inside of rear cover. The Library of Liberal Arts paperback books
Référence libraire : UBERTHR00HMR
|
|
|
BERKELEY George Bishop of Cloyne
A Miscellany Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects
London: J. & R. Tonson 1752. First. hardcover. very good. 8vo contemporary calf with leather spine label. London: J. &. R. Tonson and S. Draper 1752. First Edition<br/><br/> The book contains 11 tracts each with a separate title page & date but only one continuous pagination. The subjects include Thoughts on Tar-water Proposal for converting the Savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be erected.in Bermuda Exhortation to the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland Discourse to Magistrates etc.<br/><br/> J. & R. Tonson unknown books
Référence libraire : 284380
|
|
|
Berkeley George Bishop of Cloyne
Alciphron: or the minute philosopher. In seven dialogues. Containing an apology for the Christian religion . The second edition
London: J. Tonson 1732. 2 vols. 8vo pp. 14 356; 8 218; engraved vignette title-pp.; bound with as issued An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision pp. 12 215-351; several woodcuts in the text; full contemporary calf double gilt rules on covers unlettered spines in 6 compartments volume designations in 1; some moderate chipping and cracking of the spines but all in all a good and reasonably sound set. Rothschild 372 citing the first edition of the same year: "Alciphron was written in America where Berkeley had gone to await funds which never came for his projected College in the Bermudas." <br/><br/> J. Tonson unknown books
Référence libraire : 26337
|
|
|
BERKELEY George David Berman Padraig O Loingsigh and Malachi McCormick
Maxims Concerning Patriotism Signed Limited Edition
Dublin and New York: Stone Street Press 1985. First edition. Softcover. Number 254 from an edition of 500 copies printed from Malachi McCormick's original calligraphy and design. Tercentenary Edition of Berkeley's work. Introduction by David Berman and notes by Padraig O Loingsigh. A near fine copy in wrappers. Signed by McCormick on the limitation page. Despite the size of the edition quite uncommon with only 1 copy listed in OCLC. Stone Street Press unknown books
Référence libraire : 145991
|
|
|
BERKELEY George 1685 1753
ALCIPHRON; or the minute philosopher. In seven dialogues. Containing an apology for the Christian Religion against those who are called free-thinkers
London: J. Tonson 1732. First Edition. 8vo pp. xiv 350; viii 358. Tipped to the front blank is an engraved portrait of the author by Aveline. There is an ownership signature of "Twells" in the right margin of each title-page and the note: "Given by the author" in a contemporary although unknown hand along the top margin of the title-page in volume 1. Engraved scene on each title-page. Ex-Library copy with stamps on the bottom margin of the first two pages of text. Bound in modern calf backed boards. A very good clean set. Rothschild 374. Printing and the Mind of Man 176n. First edition of Berkeley"s attempt at the refutation of the current forms of free-thinking composed while he was resident in America and including some important observations relevant to that part of the world. The second volume also includes what is functionally the third edition of his ESSAY TOWARDS A NEW THEORY OF VISION first published in 1709. Praised by Adam Smith as "one of the finest examples of philosophical analysis that is to be found either in our ownor in any other language" the New theory of vision was accepted in France by Voltaire Condillac and Diderot Keynes pp. 7-8<br/> Bishop Berkeley was an influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of what has come to be called subjective idealism summed up in his dictum "Esse est percipi" "To be is to be perceived". The theory states that individuals can only directly know sensations and ideas of objects not abstractions such as "matter J. Tonson unknown books
Référence libraire : 35809
|
|
|
BERKELEY George 1685 1753
Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water
London: W. Innys and C. Hitch 1744. Second first London edition. Repairs to binding; title slightly soiled ink inscriptions in Greek on rear flyleaves a handsome copy/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 8vo. 174 2 pp. Near-contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards. Berkeley's most popular work espousing the myriad uses of tar water to treat everything from fevers to cancers from infant to elderly and from human to animal. "The work begins as an investigation of the medicinal virtues of tar-water and ends with a disquisition on Platonic philosophy - a blend of science and metaphysics. While in America Berkeley experimented with tar-water for many ailments including dysentery rheumatism and asthma. The treatment proved so successful that he set up an apparatus for manufacturing it" Rootenberg. Blake 43; ESTC N12567; Keynes 64; Kress 4685; Wellcome II:149. <br/><br/> W. Innys and C. Hitch hardcover books
Référence libraire : 401896
|
|
|
BERKELEY George 1685 1753 JESSOP Thomas Edmund 1896 1980.
A Bibliography of George Berkeley. With an Inventory of Berkeley's Manuscript Remains by A.A. Luce.
New York:: Burt Franklin 1968. 1968. Reprint of the 1934 edition. Series: Burt Franklin: Bibliography & Reference Series 234; Philosophy Monographs Series 21. 8vo. xvi 99 pp. Index. Red cloth gilt-stamped spine title. Fine. Over 500 separate entries recorded. Burt Franklin, (1968). hardcover books
Référence libraire : Z1076
|
|
|
BERKELEY George 1685 1753 KEYNES Geoffrey Langdon 1887 1982.
A Bibliography of George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne: His Works and His Critics in the Eighteenth Century.
Oxford:: Clarendon Press 1976. 1976. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. xxvii 285 pp. Fold-out frontis. port. of Berkeley 108 title pages reproduced in full page figs indexes. Red cloth gilt-stamped spine title dust-jacket. Near fine. George Berkeley also known as Bishop Berkeley was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism". ISBN: 0198181612 Clarendon Press, 1976. hardcover books
Référence libraire : Z1077 ISBN : 0198181612 9780198181613
|
|
|
Berkeley George.
The works of George Berkeley D.D. Bishop of Cloyne . to which are added an account of his life and several of his letters to Thomas Pride Dean Gervias Mr. Pope etc.
London: Thomas Tegg & Son et al. 1837. 8vo 23.4 cm 9.2". 8 adv. 4 xlv 1 479 1 pp. <br><br>Nice one-volume printing of Bishop Berkeley's collected works first published in quarto in 1784 and in octavo in 1820: philosophy mathematics Irish issues the medicinal properties of tar water a "Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in Our Foreign Plantations; and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity" etc. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2B19630; Sabin 3881. Publisher's textured blue cloth covers with blind-stamped arabesque and foliate design spine with gilt-stamped title in foliate frame; extremities rubbed spine with small spots of insect damage. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1841. Pages uncut signatures unopened. Thomas Tegg & Son, et al. hardcover books
Référence libraire : 34755
|
|
|
Berkeley George.
Three Diologues Between Hylas and Philonous.
Hackett Publishing 1979. Reprint edition. Fine. Blue cloth no dust jacket. Hackett Publishing, 1979. Reprint edition. hardcover books
Référence libraire : Embry 32512
|
|
|
Berkeley George. .
Philosophical Commentaries: Generally called the Commonplace Book.
London. : Thomas Nelson. 1944. . Limited edition #274 of 400 copies. . Tan cloth brown spine label gilt title. . Bookplate on pastedown. owner’s name on ffep light bump to lower edge small dampstain at bottom corner affecting only the edges otherwise a very good copy with no dustjacket. . 4to. Thomas Nelson. hardcover books
Référence libraire : 254566
|
|
|
Berkeley George. Prefecas and Annotations by Alexander Campbell Fraser
THE WORKS OF GEORGE BERKELEY D.D. FORMERLY BISHOP OF CLOYNE: INCLUDING MANY OF HIS WRITINGS HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED
Clarendon Press - Oxford 1871. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Four volume set. 8vo. Rebound by Zaehnsdorf in half tan calf over marbled paper-covered boards four raised bands black calf spine labels in second and fourth compartments top edges gilt marbled endpapers. 2198 pp. in toto individually paginated. Light rubbing to head heel edges and corners. Internally clean with a touch of toning to the page edges. Near fine. Clarendon Press - Oxford hardcover books
Référence libraire : 425006
|
|
|
Berkeley George; Calkins Mary W
Berkeley Selections
Scribners 1957. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Wrappers lightly rubbed. 1957 Mass Market Paperback. Contains the complete text of his Principles and Hylas excerpts from Alciphron and several other works. Scribners paperback books
Référence libraire : 2263076
|
|
|
Berkeley George; Calkins Mary Whiton
Berkeley: Essay Principles Dialogues with Selections from Other Writings The Modern Student's Library
New York: Charles Scribner 1929. Small Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Light stain along bottom edge top page ridge lightly foxed very slightly musty. 1929 Small Hard Cover. lvi 480 6 pp. "George Berkeley /brkli/;45 12 March 1685 Charles Scribner hardcover books
Référence libraire : 2307973
|
|
|
Berkeley George; Jessop T. E. Editor
Berkeley: Philosophical Writings
Austin: University of Texas Press 1953. Hardcover. Small Octavo; G/G Hardcover w/ Dustjacket; Tan spine Red text; Dustjacket has some edgewear some shelfwear fraying and small open tears at corners and along head edge of spine black stains on front cover and spine; Boards strong some edgewear some shelfwear color fading to both covers; Textblock has staining to endpapers spotting on some pages; 278 pp. 1340919. FP New Rockville Stock. University of Texas Press hardcover books
Référence libraire : 1340919
|
|
|
Berkeley Grantley F.
ENGLISH SPORTSMAN IN THE WESTERN PRAIRIES
London: Hurst and Blackett 1861. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. London: Hurst and Blackett 1861. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Illustrated with 9 engraved plates each with tissue guard. 431 pub. cat. pp. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Tan Modern 3/4 tan calf over marbled boards. Some very light scattered foxing on initial few pages else clean and bright. Very good/No jacket issued. Oversized - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. Hurst and Blackett hardcover books
Référence libraire : 41821
|
|
|
BERKELEY Grantley F.
My Life and Recollections
London: Hurst and Blackett 1865. hardcover. near fine. Colored frontispiece portraits completely extra-illustrated with about 40 mezzotints lithographs steel engravings of landscapes portraits and sporting subjects a few in color. 2 vols. 8vo red 1/2 morocco. London 1865. Near Fine.<br/><br/> Memoirs of the eminent 19th century sportsman and gallant.<br/><br/> Hurst and Blackett unknown books
Référence libraire : 32925
|
|
|
Berkeley Jon.
The Wednesday Tales No. 2: The Tiger's Egg.
HarperCollins 2007. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. HarperCollins, 2007. First edition, first printing. unknown books
Référence libraire : Embry 150807
|
|
|
BERKELEY JR. EDMUND ED
Autographs and manuscripts: a collector's manual
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1978. First edition; 8vo; pp. xviii 2 565; numerous illustrations in the text; very good in good jacket with tears no loss and wrinkles on extremities. Co-edited by Herbert E. Klingelhofer and Kenneth W. Rendell. Sponsored by The Manuscript Society. Inscribed by Ken Rendell and contributor Diana Rendell "for 'the girls of Chicago' with best wishes 12/20/78." A comprehensive work valuable to any collector. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
Référence libraire : 28549
|
|
|
BERKELEY Lennox 1903 1989
Partita Study score
London: J. & W. Chester PN J.W.C. 289 1966. Paperback. Very Good. Large octavo. Wrappers. 1f. title 48 pp.<br/><br/>From the collection of noted musicologist Stanley Boorman with his signature to title.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly browned. J. & W. Chester [PN J.W.C. 289] paperback books
Référence libraire : 35391
|
|
|
BERKELEY Lennox 1903 1989
Three autograph letters signed to pianist and editor Alan Poulton
Written between December 1980 and October 1981 these letters discuss the chronology of several of the composer's compositions for a catalogue that Poulton is compiling.<br/><br/>1 1-1/4 pp. Small octavo. Dated Spetchley Park Worcester December 25 1980. On white stationery with Berkeley's address and telephone number printed at head. "I feel sure that I would benefit greatly from a survey of my work to date such as you are doing for the composers you mention. I would like one of the possible contributors to be Peter Dickinson who has written the article on me in the New Grove. It might be as well to consult my publishers. J & W Chester. I should be glad to hear from you again." Creased at fold.<br/><br/>2 1-1/3 pp. Quarto. Dated London September 24 1981. On blue stationery with Berkeley's address and telephone number printed at head. Berkeley apologizes for his belated response. He discusses his Aubade for Organ. He will meet with his publisher Chester to discuss the order of his compositions after op. 96 and other queries. "I expect that most of your queries have been answered by now but some I will now try to answer. Aubade for Organ. This is the first of three pieces Op 72 number 1. The other movements being Aria and the last Toccata. 'There was neither grass nor corn' would as you suppose have been written in 1949." Creased at fold.<br/><br/>3 1-1/2pp. Quarto. Dated London October 15 1981. On blue stationery with Berkeley's address and telephone number printed at head. Once again Berkeley apologizes for his belated response and answers several more of Poulton's queries. He will contact Chester for answers to others. He would be happy to meet Poulton in London or Worcester. He mentions the following compositions: Judica me the first and second sonatas for Violin and Piano and the Suite for Orchestra. "I know this sounds nonsensical but I was dissatisfied with my first Violin & Piano Sonata and withdrew it. I then wrote another one - it was a considerable improvement so I decided to make it my Opus 1 forgetting that it was called No. 2 when published. I regard it as my first published work so I think its best just to call it Op 1." Creased at folds. "From the same generation as Walton and Tippett Berkeley has little connection with national traditions represented by them or by Elgar and Vaughan Williams earlier. This is partly because of his French ancestry and temperament which made him closer to Fauré and to Ravel and Poulenc who were both personal friends. Berkeley admired Mozart above all then Chopin Ravel and the neo-classical Stravinsky. His own idiom is built from an overt melodic expression usually rooted in tonality and allied to a fastidious command of harmony and orchestral texture. Religious subjects in particular invariably gave rise to vocal music of unusual spiritual intensity a mood also reflected in his instrumental slow movements. Though he was at his most distinctive in the 1940s and 50s the achievement of his later extended language is considerable. His is an enduring cultivated and imaginative voice in 20th-century British music." Peter Dickinson and Joan Redding in Grove Music Online.<br/><br/>Alan Poulton is the compiler and editor of A Dictionary-Catalogue of Modern British Composers among other music reference works. unknown books
Référence libraire : 24371
|
|
|
Berkeley MJ. M. J.
Outlines of British Fungology; Containing Characters of Above a Thousand Species of Fungi and A Complete List of All That Have Been Described as Natives of the British Isles
London: Lovell Reeve 1860. Hardcover. Good. xvii 442 pp 23 plates with facing pages 20 publisher's catalogue. Shelf wear to boards tears to cloth at spine front hinge starting to crack small inscription on front free endpaper; contents clean. From the Preface: "The object of this Work is to furnish materials for the correct determination of the larger British Fungi and such only as require nothing more than a common lens for their examination." Lovell Reeve hardcover books
Référence libraire : 2961
|
|
|
BERKELEY Molly
Winking At The Brim
Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1967. 1967. First edition first printing so stated. 8vo. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 3 page foreword by L.P. Hartley. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped. Very good fresh copy. 172 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. hardcover books
Référence libraire : 228621
|
|
|
BERKELEY Rev. George 1685 1753
The theory of vision vindicated & explained. Edited with annotations by H.V.H. Cowell.
Cambridge & London:: Macmillan & Co. 1860. 1860. Small 8vo. xxiv 141 8 24 ads. pp. Original dark maroon blind-stamped cloth gilt-stamped spine title; spine ends and joints mended with kozo. Ownership signature. Very good. Macmillan & Co., 1860. hardcover books
Référence libraire : M10808
|
|
|
BERKELEY Robyn
Sphinx
Alameda CA: Ankh Press 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 26cm.; Purple illustrated wraps; 50pp.; small faint corner bend light rubbing. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Sphinx takes its characters and the reader on a whirlwind tour of history as it was and as it might be if a ruthless and brilliant man went back in time and shaped reality to suit himself. The players in this fantasy include Darrel the successful young Black lawyer Shanae his African-American supermodel fiancee Bill the good old boy who goes from wino to politico to human sacrifice on the wheel of time Heather the icy blonde prosecuting attorney whose penchant for domination finds a vent in the New Reality of Los Angeles 2000 where slavery has made a comeback in a big way and Antoine the fierce Creole aristocrat who steals an alien artifact of great power and uses it to fulfill his lust for control for wealth and most of all for Shanae. from the publisher. Ankh Press unknown books
Référence libraire : 52602
|
|
Recevoir par e-mail
Télécharger en PDF
Flux RSS
Lien permanent
