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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
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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 Carter Burwell 1768 1839.
Tentamen Medicum inaugurale de corpore humano quaedam complectens; quod . . . D. Gulielmi Robertson S.T.P. . . . pro gradu doctoris . . . eruditorum examini subjicit Carter Berkeley . . .
Edinburgh:: Adamus Neill 1793. 1793. 2 works in one. Small 4to. 6 52; viii 54 pp. Half-title errata. Original full gilt-stamped tree-calf dark red gilt-stamped spine labels. Very good. First work: INSCRIBED "Mr. William Berkeley from his Affectionate Friend Brother the Author." Dedicated to Nelson Berkeley. Berkeley born in Virginia educated at the University of Edinburgh submits his doctoral thesis on the human body. Both Berkeley and Minor following studied under William Robertson 1721-1793 FRSE FSA was Principal at the University a noted scholar of Scotland and its history. Second work: MINOR Charles Carolus. Disputatio medica inauguralis: de typho: quam annuente summo numine Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri D. Gulielmi Robertson S.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; necnon Amplissimi Senatus Academici consensu Et nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae decreto; pro gradu doctoris summisque in Medicina Honoribus ac Privilegiis rite et Legitime consequendis ; eruditorum examini subjicit Carolus Minor Virginiensis; Societ. Phys. Americ. Soc. Extraord. Necnon Societ. Reg. Phys. Soc. Hon. Ad diem 24. Junii hora locoque solitis. Edinburgi: Excudebat Adamus Neill cum sociis 1793. PARISH HISTORY NOTES 22: DR. CARTER BURWELL BERKELEY. Here is a brief account of the life of Carter Burwell Berkeley a devout and highly admired member of the Fork Church congregation during the early nineteenth century: He was born at Airwell Virginia on February 20 1768 and performed his early studies under the tutelage of a Mr. Bell an Irish scholar in a small log cabin near Offley Mill. His higher education was completed in 1793 with the receipt of a degree in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. / Dr. Berkeley returned to Virginia and practiced medicine from his old home until his marriage to Catherine Spotswood Carter. In the year of their wedding 1796 they built Edgewood which was to remain his residence and office well beyond her death. Each Sunday neighbors were invited to dine at Edgewood after church services and this event became a grand social and intellectual tradition along Ridge Road. / It was Dr. Berkeley's philosophy to practice faith and medicine together. One patient described waking late one night during a serious illness to find Dr. Berkeley kneeling by her bed and praying for her recovery. According to Brief Biographies of Virginia Physician by L. B. Anderson 1889 a patient was quoted as saying "We prefer Dr. Berkeley to anyone else because what he failed to accomplish by his medical skill he would secure by his prayers." / On Sunday morning November 3 1839 Dr. Berkeley was involved with his duties as chief warden when he was asked by two other doctors to visit a sick man as early as possible. "He was introduced into the room of the patient and seating himself by the bed gently grasped the wrist to feel the pulse. Not a word was uttered not a movement was made except to incline his head as was his custom during profound thought." In time the other doctors found that life has passed from the good doctor. "Thus like the faithful sentinel he fell with his armor on and in the exercise of the noble functions of his high calling." theforkchurch – Dr Carter Burwell Berkeley. Adamus Neill, 1793. unknown books
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Berkeley Dorothy Smith; Berkeley Edmund
George William Featherstonhaugh The First U.s. Government Geologist
Tuscaloosa: Univ of Alabama Pr 1988. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. History of American Science and Technology Series. <br/><br/> Univ of Alabama Pr hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 9007284 ISBN : 0817303650 9780817303655
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Updike Daniel Berkeley and Julian Pearce Smith.
Notes On The Merrymount Press & Its Work.
Cambridge Harvard University Press 1934. Together "WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF BOOKS PRINTED AT THE PRESS 1893-1933" by Julian Pearce Smith. First edition. One of 500 copies. Very good condition. <br/><br/> Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1934. unknown books
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Updike Daniel Berkeley
The Practice Of Typography broadside
Iowa City: Prairie Press 1961. 1st. Designed hand set and printed by Carroll Coleman using Eric Gill's Perpetua Titling and Joanna types. 13.5 x 9 inches. Fine. <br/><br/> Prairie Press unknown books
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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
Bookseller reference : Z1077 ISBN : 0198181612 9780198181613
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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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Updike Daniel Berkeley & Rudolph Ruzicka.
D.B.U. and R.R.: selected extracts from correspondence between Daniel Berkeley Updike and Rudolph Ruzicka 19081941.
New York: American Printing History Association 1998. Small 4to 27.3 cm; 10.75". vi 181 8 pp. <br><br>One of 500 copies and no. 50 of 50 special copies signed by the designer Roderick Stinehour and bound by Judi Conant at Guildhall VT with the inclusion of => three wood engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka printed by the Merrymount Press in addition to the many reproductions prepared for this volume. The correspondence was edited by Elizabeth French Lathem and Edward Connery Lathem and the text and illustration together well exemplify the collaboration between two giants of the Book Arts during the first half of the 20th century.<br>Â Â Â Â => The wood engravings are absolutely stunning.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. Quarter blue cloth with gray paper spine label over lovely marbled paper; issued without a dust jacket. The least scattering of light foxing-spots to lower fore-edges not margins of last few leaves; indeed a => bright clean copy. American Printing History Association hardcover books
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Updike Daniel Berkeley & William S. Peterson editor.
The well-made book: essays & lectures.
West New York NJ: Mark Batty 2002. 383 pp. <br><br>=> Signed by editor William S. Peterson. 1 of 40 copies. Includes tipped-in items in rear and a letter from the publisher laid in. Hardcover in slipcase. No dust jacket. Grey paper-covered boards. Spine faded. Near fine in a near fine. Mark Batty 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>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
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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
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Busby Berkeley choreographer; Betty Grable starring; Betty Grable Dan Dailey Danny Thomas Richard Boone starring; Sammy Fain
Call Me Mister Original screenplay for the 1951 film
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Final Script for the 1951 film "Call Me Mister" directed by Lloyd Bacon written for the screen by Albert E. Lewin and Burt Styler and starring Betty Grable Dan Dailey Danny Thomas and Richard Boone. With choreography by Busby Berkeley and songs by Frances Ash Earl K. Brent Sammy Fain and Mack Gordon. <br/><br/>"Call Me Mister" was based on a long-running Broadway revue with more than a little off-color humor. Fox grafted a storyline onto the revue cleaned up the dialogue and a wartime musical was born wherein Grable a singer touring USO bases runs into her old husband Dailey. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers stamped REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped project No. 314 and copy No. 5 and dated April 18 1950. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Lewin and Styler. 123 leaves mimeo rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some edge creasing and slight offsetting bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 319. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
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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
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BERKELEY Sara.
Penn.
Dublin & Saskatoon: Raven Arts Press/Thistledown Press 1989. First edition. 48 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dublin & Saskatoon: Raven Arts Press/Thistledown Press unknown books
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BERKELEY Sara.
Facts about Water: New & Selected Poems.
Dublin & Saskatoon: New Island Books/Thistledown Press 1994. First edition. 96 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dublin & Saskatoon: New Island Books/Thistledown Press unknown books
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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
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BERKELEY POETRY CONFERENCE. Hawley Robert. ed.
Checklists of Separate Publications of Poets at the First Berkeley Poetry Conference 1965.
Berkeley: Oyez/Cody's 1965. First edition. . 16 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies printed. Robin Blaser Robert Creeley Richard Duerden Robert Duncan Allen Ginsberg Leroi Jones Joanne Kyger Ron Loewinsohn Charles Olson Gary Snyder Jack Spicer George Stanley Lew Welch and John Wieners. Berkeley: Oyez/Cody's unknown books
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Locke John; Berkeley George; Hume David
The Empiricists Locke: Concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge & 3 Dialogues; Hume: Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning Natural Religion
New York: Anchor Books 1990. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. Reprint. Faint foxing wave. 1990 Trade Paperback. The rise and fall of British Empiricism is philosophy's most dramatic example of pushing premises to their logical--and fatal--conclusions. Born in 1690 with the appearance of Locke's Essay Empiricism flourished as the reigning school until 1739 when Hume's Treatise strangled it with its own cinctures after a period of Berkeley's optimistic idealism. The Empiricists collects the key writings on this important philosophy perfect for those interested in learning about this movement with just one book. Anchor Books paperback books
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Snow Berkeley
The History of the Deschutes Club . 1933-1966
Portland Oregon: Touchstone Press 1966. First edition one of 100 copies. Illustrated with photographs. 111 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Simulated tan calf. Fine copy. First edition one of 100 copies. Illustrated with photographs. 111 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine Copy. Scarce and interesting history of this Oregon sporting club situated in the descutes River Canyon. Bruns S-216; Heller 1:752 "only about 100 copies printed" Touchstone Press unknown books
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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UPDIKE Daniel Berkeley and others
NOTES ON THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS & ITS WORK
MERRYMOUNT UPDIKE Daniel Berkeley and others. NOTES ON THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS & ITS WORK. San francisco: Alan Wofsy 1975. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. "With bibliographical list of books printed at the press 1893-1933" by Juli Pearce Smith; "to which has been added a supplementary bibliography of books printed at the press 1934-1949" by Daniel Berkeley Bianchi. Limited to fiv hundred copies. Fine. unknown books
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BERKELEY Edmund and Dorthy Smith Berkeley
THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN BARTRAM 1734-1777
BARTRAM BERKELEY Edmund and Dorthy Smith Berkeley. THE CORRESPONDENCE O JOHN BARTRAM 1734-1777. Gainesville: University Press of Florida 1992. 8vo. Cloth. 809 pages. Fir edition. An illustrated edition of the most comprehensive assembly of Bartram's letter edited by the Berkeleys. Now out-of-print this book was originally publishe at $125.00. Fine. unknown books
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Sedatives Berkeley Robert
An Inquiry into the Modus Operandi of that Class of Medicines Called Sedatives . Submitted as an inaugual Dissertation . to the University of Pennsylvania . for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine
Philadelphia: Way & Groff 1800. First edition. 34pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound and resewn. Apart from some staining a very good copy. First edition. 34pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The author argues that the class of medicines commonly known as 'sedatives' are actually stimulants.<br/>He considers the likes of digitalis opium nitre and saccharum.<br/><br/>Scarce: OCLC locates 5 copies. Evans 36942 Way & Groff unknown books
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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
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MOYNIHAN Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan baron 1865 1936.
Duodenal ulcer.
Philadelphia: Saunders 1910; Birmingham:: Classics of Surgery Library 1990. 1990. 25 cm. 379 pp. Illus. index. Full navy blue gilt-stamped cowhide a.e.g. Fine. Bookplate. Special edition. "Moynihan greatly advanced our knowledge of duodenal ulcer. He developed the concept of the so-called ulcer sequence pain-food-ease and he stressed the well-ordered sequence of symptoms. More than any other he established treatment of duodenal ulcer on a sound basis." See: Garrison and Morton 3535. Classics of Surgery Library, 1990. unknown books
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Lewis Colonel Berkeley R.; Ordnance Corps United States Army Retired.
Notes on Ammunition of the American Civil War 1861 - 1865.
Washington DC: The American Ordnance Association 1959. Tall octavo paperbound stiff navy blue stapled wrappers uncut 32 pp. From Foreword: The American Ordnance Association takes pride in presenting this precis the second in a series of monographs on the armament used in the American Civil War. The strategy and tactics of that conflict can be understood in their true light only when the capabilities and limitations of thefighting equipment are known. As far as ammunition is concerned the great complexity of the subject can only be appreciated by students of the many battels who try to identify some specimen offered for inspection. Practically all of the thousands of books that have been written about the American Civil War treat it from the Adjutant General’s point of view -- a concern with personnel -- or from the eminence of the strategist and tactician. Students and historians of the conflict have found no convenient source for official descriptions of the weapons their ammunition or performance. The American Ordnance Association, 1959. unknown books
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Updike Daniel Berkeley
Printing types: their history forms and use. A study in survivals
New York: Dover Publications Inc. 1980. 2 volumes 8vo pp. xl 292; xvii 1 3-326; type specimens throughout; blue cloth-backed marbled boards gilt-lettered spines; fine. A reprint of the second 1937 edition publish by Harvard University Press. Standard and respected work. <br/><br/> Dover Publications, Inc. hardcover books
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Updike Daniel Berkeley
The well-made book: essays & lectures
West New York: Mark Batty 2002. First edition 8vo pp. xxi 1 383 3; signed by the editor William S. Peterson on colophon portrait frontispiece vignette title page 31 facsimile text illustrations; gray cloth gilt title fine in a fine printed dust jacket with prospectus laid in. <br/><br/> Mark Batty hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 51543
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Updike Daniel Berkeley
Notes on the Merrymount Press & its work: with a bibliographical list of books printed at the Press 1893-1933: to which has been added a supplementary bibliography of books printed at the Press 1934-1949
San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts 1975. Best edition with the Bianchi supplement limited to 500 copies 8vo pp. viii 6 357 1; 15 photographic text illustrations; brown cloth gilt title on cover and spine fine. The standard work on the Merrymount Press first published 1934. <br/><br/> Alan Wofsy Fine Arts hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 51503
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Updike Daniel Berkeley
Notes on the Merrymount Press & its work. With a bibliographical list of books printed at the press 1893-1933 by Julian Pearce Smith. With views of the Press at various periods specimens of types alluded to &c. &c. &c
Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1934. First edition limited to 500 copies 8vo pp. vi 4 279 3; partially unopened fine in original brown linen stamped in gilt on spine. Standard work on the Merrymount Press. <br/><br/> Harvard University Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 51502
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Updike Daniel Berkeley
Some aspects of printing old and new
New Haven: William Edwin Rudge 1941. First edition printed at the Merrymount Press 4to pp. 4 72 2; ornamented title page 1 collotype plate; a near fine copy in original dark gray cloth gilt-stamped spine and upper cover; near fine. Without a dust jacket as issued. Six essays including "The Essentials of a Well-made Book" "The Place of the Educated Man in the Printing Industry" and "American University Presses." Smith 908. <br/><br/> William Edwin Rudge hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 51504
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Moynihan Sir Berkeley.
American Addresses.
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders 1917. First Edition. Octavo green cloth hardcover 143 15 ads pp. Fine. W. B. Saunders, 1917. First Edition. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 5752fd
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Updike Daniel Berkeley
The practice of typography
Iowa City: Prairie Press 1961. Broadside approximately 13½" x 9" printed in black blue and red on wove paper; old bookseller's description taped to verso and from whence the following comes else fine. "Nowhere on this broadside does it show that it was printed at the Prairie Press but it is pictured in the article "Carroll Coleman on Printing - Excerpts from a 36-Year's Correspondence with Emerson G.Wulling" Books at Iowa no. 23 1975. In a personal conversation Carroll Coleman told me that he had always admired this quote and as he had just acquired Eric Gill's "Joanna" type he decided to make the first use of it for the body of this broadside." This is a distinct edition from that of the same text which is twice folded and printed on two sides. <br/><br/> Prairie Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 48422
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Updike Daniel Berkeley
Printing types: their history forms and use. A study in survivals
Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1951. Second edition second printing 2 volumes 8vo plates some folding and illustrations in text; a fine bright set in original red cloth gilt-lettered spines. Standard reference. <br/><br/> Harvard University Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 41875
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UPDIKE DANIEL BERKELEY.
The work of the Merrymount Press and its founder Daniel Berkeley Updike 1860-1941. An exhibition prepared by Gregg Anderson
San Marino Ca: The Huntington Library 1942. 8vo pp. 2 32 2; 3 illus. on rectos and versos of 2 plates 2 facsimiles in text; fine in orig. printed orange wrappers. Attractive exhibition catalogue printed at the Ward Ritchie Press Los Angeles. <br/><br/> The Huntington Library unknown books
Bookseller reference : 18086
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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
Bookseller reference : qms435
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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
Bookseller reference : 26337
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UPDIKE DANIEL BERKELEY
Some aspects of printing old and new
New Haven: William Edwin Rudge 1941. First edition printed at the Merrymount Press 4to pp. 4 72-74; ornamented title-page 1 collotype plate; a near fine copy in orig. dark gray cloth gilt minimal wear to extremities lower spine end bumped. Six essays including "The Essentials of a Well-made Book" "The Place of the Educated Man in the Printing Industry" and "American University Presses." Smith 908. <br/><br/> William Edwin Rudge hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 12811
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Updike Daniel Berkeley.
Daniel Berkeley Updike and the Merrymount Press
New York: The Grolier Club 1940. Edition limited to 1000 copies printed by The Pynson Printers this 1 of 150 copies for the Grolier Club signed by Updike in pencil on the colophon; 8vo pp. 47 7; vignette title-page and 3 vignettes in text; fine in orig. brown cloth over beige paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on spine. 850 copies were also printed for the A.I.G.A. which were bound in wrappers and not signed. Addresses given at the Grolier Club at the opening of an exhibition on Updike and the Merrymount Press with a check-list of Updike's writings. <br/><br/> The Grolier Club hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 18101
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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
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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
Bookseller reference : 12094
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UPDIKE DANIEL BERKELEY
Notes on the Merrymount Press & its work. With a bibliographical list of books printed at the press 1893-1933 by Julian Pearce Smith. With views of the Press at various periods specimens of types alluded to &c. &c. &c
Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1934. First edition limited to 500 copies 8vo x & 280pp. 13 plates; spine ends just beginning to fray otherwise near fine in orig. brown linen stamped in gilt on spine. Standard work on the Merrymount Press. <br/><br/> Harvard University Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 27787
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University of California Berkeley Associated Students
On the Campus
Berkeley California: Associated Students Store 1924. Wraps. Near Fine. Oblong octavo 50 pp. The University of California Berkeley founded in 1868 is renowned throughout the world; it boasts 91 Nobel laureates 9 Wolf Prizes 13 Fields Medals 23 Turing Awards 45 macArthur Fellowships 20 Academy Awards 14 Pulitzer Prizes 117 Olympic gold medals and the discovery of 16 chemical elements of the periodic table N. B. info from Wikipedia. <br/><br/>Books about Cal abound but this softbound collection of 1920s photographs seems unaccountably scarce; included are photographic reproductions of Sather Gate Sather Tower The Greek Theatre University Library Stephens Union and more. The title page introduces the book thus: "The University of California campus lies at the foot of the Berkeley hills and overlooks San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate N.B. this was pre-Golden Gate Bridge. Ancient oaks and winding paths enhance the beauty of the grounds from which rise the white granite buildings erected in accordance with the Hearst plan for the Greater University".<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Blue paper wraps with gilt lettering on the covers and spine each page includes a photograph of a part of the UC Berkeley Campus with a facing description of each image there is a three page fold out photograph of "The Big Game from November 24th 1923" at the end of the book; oblong octavo approximately 8.5" tall by 11" wide unpaginated with 25 leaves followed by the folding illustration.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Near fine with clean pages and tight binding free of prior owner markings; some light sunning a bit of bumping to the yapped edges no tears and some light foxing to the endpapers.<br/><br/>___CITATION: OCLC no. 19856476.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. [Associated Students Store] unknown books
Bookseller reference : 17071724
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Stanley Morison and Daniel Berkeley Updike
Stanley Morison & D. B. Updike: Selected Correspondence
New York:: Moretus Press 1979. Paperback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. xxxiv 217 3 pp. Chronology 20 illustrations most on plates 107 letters between Morison and Updike index; text clean unmarked. Navy cloth gilt spine dust-jacket; jacket spine lightly faded light soiling to the jacket edges soiled. Very Good. Edited by David McKitterick b. 1948. These letters form a remarkable body of comment on typographical history liturgical printing and the world of printing in the 1920s and 1930s. They provide keen insights into the minds of the two giants of twentieth century typographic history. Moretus Press, paperback books
Bookseller reference : CH814-104 ISBN : 0896790010 9780896790018
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UC Berkeley Reunion Program Burque Arthur Previous Owner
BLUE And GOLD - CLASS Of 1910.; Fortieth Reunion - 1950
n.p. 1950. 1st Printing. Blue textured card stock wrappers gold lettering to upper wrapper white glossy leaves printed in black. Stapled. One white paper slip scotch-taped in to lower wrapper printed in black. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some light rubbing to edges and corners of the wrapper couple surface tears to verso of upper wrapper pos to head of title page light age toning and foxing to leaves. Last leaf is an "Autograph" page with seven signatures. Overall clean and bright. 16 pp. and one slip. Illustrated. 9-1/4" x 6" <br/><br/> unknown books
Bookseller reference : 47558
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