‎Berkeley‎

‎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

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT65559

‎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

Bookseller reference : 024911

‎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

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT65696

‎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

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‎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

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‎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

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‎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

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‎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

Bookseller reference : 35809

‎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

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‎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>    <br>    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

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‎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

Bookseller reference : 254566

‎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

Bookseller reference : 2263076

‎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

Bookseller reference : 1340919

‎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

Bookseller reference : 32925

‎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

Bookseller reference : 28549

‎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

Bookseller reference : 24371

‎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

Bookseller reference : 228621

‎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

Bookseller reference : 52602

‎BERKELEY Sara.‎

‎Facts about Water: New & Selected Poems.‎

‎Dundrum & Saskatoon: New Island/Thistledown 1994. First edition. 96 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. SIGNED by Berkeley on the half-title page. Dundrum & Saskatoon: New Island/Thistledown paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 51652

‎Berkeley William‎

‎The Lost Lady‎

‎Oxford: Printed for the Malone Society By David Stanford at the University Printing House 1987. xxiii 86p. b/w facs. original cloth The Malone Society reprints. Printed for the Malone Society By David Stanford at the University Printing House unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 032785

‎Berkeley & Alvera Mickelsen‎

‎Bible encyclopedia‎

‎D. C. Cook Pub. Co. Used - Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. D. C. Cook Pub. Co unknown‎

Bookseller reference : GRP89307810 ISBN : 0891911693 9780891911692

‎BERKELEY & PIEST‎

‎George Berkeley a Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. The Library of Liberal Arts. Softcover. 1957‎

‎LIBERAL ARTS PRESS. Good with no dust jacket. 1957. Paperback. LIBERAL ARTS PRESS paperback‎

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‎Berkeley / California / Politics‎

‎REGULAR REPUBLICAN TICKET. BERKELEY PRECINCT No. 1. "Protection to Home Industry Justice to All"‎

‎n. p. 1888. 1st Printing. Offwhite paper black printing. Horizontal split between two lines of text repaired with clear tape to verso. Very minor loss to descenders else text undamaged. Minor foxing and soiling short closed tear to edge. Good condition only. Broadside printed recto only. Masthead-style wood engraving of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton who would go on to win the presidential election that year. 11-5/8" x 5" <br/><br/>Berkeley Precinct No. 1 republican ticket for the 1888 election. Included among the 27 candidates are: State Senator W. E. Dargie; Chief Justice Supreme Court W. H. Beatty; and Representative in Congress Joseph McKenna. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 42812

‎Berkeley / Radicalism.‎

‎Telegraph Avenue Liberation Front Manual. Number 1. September 19 1969.‎

‎Berkeley: Telegraph Avenue Liberation Front 1969. Very Good. 8-1/2" x 7". Folded sheet 4pp. Printed in black and fuschia on white stock. Illustrated with photographic reproductions and cartoons. Small stain to foot of first leaf else fine. The premier issue of at least 6 total published weekly "as a map of self-defense in a terrain of increasing political repression." The Telegraph Avenue Liberation Front T.A.L.F. was an offshoot of the Berkeley Liberation Program a 13-point program drawn up by various Bay Area radicals that set out to establish the foundations for a liberated people's government in Berkeley. This issue of the T.A.L.F. Manual provides tips for surviving police violence and power shutoffs as well as tips for sabatoging police cars a call for individuals to get involved in community actions and a political cartoon entitled "Portrait of a Young Man as an Ass Kisser".OCLC locates 5 holdings and we locate one more at Northwestern. [Telegraph Avenue Liberation Front] unknown‎

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‎Berkeley ===> Fraser Alexander Campbell‎

‎SELECTIONS FROM BERKELEY ANNOTATED. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY‎

‎Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1899. 5th ed amended. xlviii 336pp footnotes index Maroon cloth hardboards with gold lettering on spine minor wear to points spine slightly faded page ends slightly untrimmed page borders faintly browned owner signature dated 1909 in ink on front free end good condition except glossy spine slightly discoloured due to removal of catalogue label library stamps including on title page back pocket removed & ink underlining & occasional notation in Fraser's introduction bright & tight copy EXLIBRARY COPY At the Clarendon Press, hardcover‎

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