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1784rif. 206029Dublin: John Exshaw 1784. Scattered light spotting and extraneous marks; corners of three pages in Vol. 1 torn off affecting only margins one repaired; near 19th-century marginal notes in pencil; small 1884 clipping mentioning Berkeley pasted into rear of Vol. 1; front board of Vol. 1 mostly detached but holding on by a cord; covers rubbed leather dry. Two vols. 4tos frontispiece 4 i-ci 1-646; iv 1-663; contemporary calf. A decent copy of this uncommon set. The second volume includes the folding plate illustrating an essay on plantation churches in Bermuda. Alongside John Locke Berkeley was the pre-eminent English-language philosopher of his era and among the most lucid writers of philosophical prose of any era. He spent significant time in the colonial "new world" and was intimately involved in establishing the Kings College in New York which became Columbia University. Additional postage required. John Exshaw unknown
rif. PSHB8447Collins 1927. 1st edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth with red ruling and lettering to spine and front board slight rubbing to corners and spine ends nice square binding clean endpapers and pages bar some spotting in the first and last few leaves. A near fine copy of the first impression of the very scarce third mystery to feature Roger Sheringham novelist turned dectective who works alongside Inspector Moresby of Scotland Yard to solve a crime on the Hampshire coast. From the collection of John Cooper the foremost authority on collecting detective fiction who identifies this particular title as one of the three most difficult Berkeley books to find in first edition. Collins, 1927 hardcover
rif. PSHB8449Collins 1929. 1st edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth with red spine and front lettering a few small scratches slight bumping and minor fraying to spine ends and corners small Times Book Club label to lower rear pastedown pages clean bar some occasional spotting to front text block. In a facsimile dustjacket. The first impression of the fifth mystery to feature Roger Sheringham in which as President of a small Crime Circle he invites each of its members to solve a puzzle which has eluded the police - who sent the poisoned chocolates to Sir Eustace Pennefather at his club Often regarded as the key Sheringham title also featuring the 'nervous mouse-like' sleuth Ambrose Chitterwick and very scarce thus. From the library of John Cooper the foremost authority on collecting detective fiction. Collins, 1929 hardcover
1947rif. 432481947. 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. 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. 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. . unknown books
1752rif. 284380London: 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 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. J. & R. Tonson unknown books
1947rif. 432481947. 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. 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. 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. . unknown
1929rif. 2824Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. / The Crime Club Inc 1929. First American Edition. Attractive copy of this Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title and Berkeley's fifth novel featuring detective Roger Sherringham. A Crime Club offers to crack a case which has stumped Scotland Yard involving an accidental death by poisoned chocolates intended for a member of the aristocracy. Hubin p.32; Pronzini & Muller pp.56-57. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; black cloth with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x2993pp. Faint suggestion of foxing to upper edge of textblock else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 showing minimal wear to extremities a few tiny tears and an old circular splash mark to lower front panel noticeable only on verso; Near Fine. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, Inc unknown
1874rif. 69444Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co 1874. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1874. Full Description: BERKELEY George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. With Prolegomena and with Annotations Select Translated and Original by Charles P. Krauth D.D. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1874. First American edition of the book which shook the intellectual world with its theory of immaterialism. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 222 x 144 mm. 2 blank 424 2 blank pp. Publisher's full orange cloth. Boards ruled in blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Previous owner's ink name on front and back pastedown. Some minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. Otherwise about fine. "The principle which underlay all Berkeley's philosophical writing was based on a rejection of all speculation such as Locke's about the meaning and necessity of matter as a primal necessity to any theory of human understanding. Briefly Berkeley maintained that no existence is conceivable or possible which is not conscious spirit or the ideas of which such a spirit is conscious. This presupposes complete equation of subject and object: no object can exist without a Mind to conceive it. Without the pre-existence of the Mind mater and substance cause and effect can have no meaning. In the Principles externality absolutely independent of all mind is shown to be an unreal impossible conception: true substance is the conscious spirit and true causality the free action of such a spirit. Physical substance and causes are relations among phenomena arbitrary though by the action of the Mind constant. Connexions between them are viewed subjectively as the suggestion or associations of the human mind and objectively as the operation of the Universal Mind. Thus the universe is the sum of human experience and forms a symbol of the divine universal intelligence: esse est percipi" Printing and the Mind of Man. Norman Library 196. PMM 176. HBS 69444. $1500. J.B. Lippincott & Co unknown
1820rif. 31This is anicely bound and readable edition of Berkeley's complete Works. One of the classic Locke/Berkeley/Hume empiricists he had a sharp eye for questionable assumptions. One was the relativity of space argueing that space wasnt a Newtonian absolute like a fishbowl but existed only relative to the perciever. Enistein credits it to Hume who repeated it from Berkeley. He argued against the math of the calculus as being descriptive because of its use of infinities and so on. Berkeley is perhaps as well know for his American interests. The establishment of an academy in Bermuda yo train christian prostelits took him further West where he hoped for a royal grant from the crown in Rhode Island. Being outlasted by the crown he returned to Ireland leaving behind the Colonial philosoper Samuel Johnso. Textual damage to upperright first thhree leves each volume inc titles lavk of text verso vol 1 b Dove hardcover
1894rif. P3298London : S Hildesheimer and Co c.1894. Excellent. Notes: Exceptional quality printed on wide margin thick paper. Signed by Stanley Berkeley in pencil at the lower left proof before title also has the seal of incorporated publishers association. The Charge of Scarlett’s 300 or Heavy Brigade at Balaclava 25 October 1854.Scarce original photogravure after Stanley Berkeley c1890 published by S Hildesheimer and Co 1894. NAM. 1952-04-1 The Charge of the Heavy Brigade would be far better known were it not for the famous action of the Light Brigade later the same day. With luck and skill 800 British heavy cavalry charged 3000 Russian light horsemen and drove them from the field. The large Russian force stopped as it came towards the British camp. This mistake laid it open to attack and 300 British heavy cavalry charged the Russians. The British had movement on their side and the rest of the Heavy Brigade followed up the charge. The much larger Russian force was put to flight with few casualties. The whole action is said to have lasted eight minutes. Stanley Berkeley 1855–1909 was an English painter of animal sporting and historical subjects especially military scenes. Born in London he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy the Grafton Gallery the New Watercolour Society and elsewhere from 1878 until 1902 and many of his pictures were retrospective military scenes of the English Civil War and the Battle of Waterloo & Crimean War. Image Size : 446x705 mm 17.56x27.76 Inches Platemark Size : 540x775 mm 21.26x30.51 Inches Paper Size : 656x861 mm 25.83x33.91 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Medium: Photogravure Categories: Views Europe Ukraine; Military Others; S Hildesheimer and Co unknown
1938rif. 58958London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited 1938. 8vo. 252 3 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with black lettering to front board & spine. In pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket slightly edge worn and fading to the spine. Cloth spine slightly faded. Internally clean. No ownership names. Binding firm. "The murder is by arsenic; and although the number of suspects is strictly limited the construction is so ingenious that to attain the correct solution of the problem requires all the reader's concentration; to skip is fatal." TLS 1938. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1938. Hodder & Stoughton Limited 1938 hardcover
2018rif. __1474306896LexisNexis UK 2018. Hardcover. New. 5th new edition edition. 3558 pages. 10.20x6.50x4.25 inches. LexisNexis UK hardcover
1995rif. 315699Easton Press 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine. Twelve volumes in uniform bindings of full bright red leather stamped in gilt spine titles in black labels. No corners or spine ends bumped or pushed. All have an unused bookplate laid in. Three have no flaws whatsoever to the page edge gilt eight have very minor almost imperceptible flaws Plato has two white spots on the top edge. This set will be remarkably attractive on your shelf. Please request a shipping quote before ordering. Easton Press hardcover
1820rif. 15730London: Printed by J.F. Dove…for Richard Priestley 1820 First octavo edition of the collected works of Berkeley first published in quarto in 1784. See Keynes Bibliography of George Berkeley p. 262. Both the quarto and the octavo collected works are uncommon on the market. Contemporary diced calf. Double-ruled gilt fillets on covers gilt decorated spine with brown morocco labels marbled edges and endpapers. . Three volumes octavo. . Volume II contains diagrams and an engraved folding plate of Tabula Lusoria. Volume III contains a large engraved folding plate of "The City of Bermuda Metropolis of the Summer Islands. Some corners lightly bumped light foxing old ink signature in each volume. A very good attractive set. Printed by J.F. Dove…for Richard Priestley,
1930rif. 17960Garden City NY: Published for the Crime Club Inc. by Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1930. First U.S. edition. Slight lean otherwise a fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with a short closed tear 20 mm to the upper left front panel tiny tear at lower right corner tip and mild shelf-wear to the head of the spine panel some portions of the orange ink of the spine panel are a bit faded. Publisher's wrap around band is present. An attractive copy of a scarce book in jacket. 17960. Octavo pp. i-vi vii-viii ix-x 1- 308 309: Crime Club statement 310: blank cloth. Mystery novel featuring sleuth Roger Sheringham the second published in England in 1926. Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. unknown
1938rif. 161361N.p.: N.p. 1938. Revised Final script for the 1938 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. A nightclub manager's secretary falls in love with a little-known bandleader her boss has booked to temporarily stand in for Rudy Vallee but her boss objects to the romance. Bound in full red leather with gilt titles on the spine and front board. Distribution page present dated 3/24/38 stamped copy No. 116 and noted as REV. FINAL with receipt intact. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine binding Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1948rif. 13435London England: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1948. First of this edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good . London: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1948-1957. 9 volumes complete works as published. Scarce set. Very good in red Oxford cloth bright gilt. Light bumping to a few corners. In good-very good dust jackets with light even sunning to spines minor wear. Now in mylar. A handsome set. No former owner marks. Prof. Luce reprints from the fourth and last edition correcting errors of past editions and indicating all alterations with the editor's introduction to the works. Published over a period of 10 years the edition is cited as definitive. Contents: Vol. 1 Philosophical Commentaries An Essay Towards A New Theory Of VisionThe Theory Of Vision;Vol. 2 A Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge First Draft Of The Introduction To The PrinciplesThree Dialogues Between Hylas And PhilonousPhilosophical Correspondence Between Berkeley And Samuel Johnson 1729-30; Vol. 3 Alciphron;Vol. 4 De MotuThe AnalystA Defence Of Free-thinking In Mathematics Reasons For Not Replying To Mr. Walton's Full AnswerArithmetica And Miscellanea Mathematica Of Infinites Writings On Natural History; Vol. 5 Sris A Chain Of Philosophical Reflexions And Inquiries Four Letters And Farther Thoughts On Tar-water; Vol. 6 Passive Obedience Advice To The Tories Who Have Taken The Oaths An Essay Towards Preventing The Ruin Of Great Britain The Querist And Other Writings On Economics A Discourse Addressed To Magistrates And Men In Authority Two Letters On The Occasion Of The Jacobite Rebellion 1745 A Word To The Wise Maxims Concerning Patriotism; Vol. 7:Sermons Letter To Sir John James On The Roman ControversyBerkeley's Primary Visitation Charge And An Address On ConfirmationBerkeley's Essays In The Guardian Journals Of Travel In Italy A Proposal For The Better Supplying Of Churches In Our Foreign Plantations and Berkeley's PetitionVerses On AmericaVaria; Vol. 8 Letters Vol. 9 Addenda. Extra shipping charges may apply. Thomas Nelson and Sons hardcover
1935rif. 161360N.p.: N.p. 1935. Final script for the 1935 film seen here under the working title "Romance in a Glass House." Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. A famed stage diva wants her untalented lover as her leading man. To prevent this from occurring the producers select a handsome novice from the streets and declare him the new contracted lead in their production. Bound in full red leather with gilt titles on the spine and front board. Distribution page present stamped copy No. 4 noted as FINAL with receipt removed. Title page present dated 6/25/35 with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald Julius J. Epstein and Robert Hardy Andrews. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine binding about Fine. N.p. unknown
1732rif. 35809London: 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 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
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1962rif. 16223Open Court Publishing C0. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - -- with a bonus offer--; 016223 . 1962. Open Court Publishing C0. paperback
1976rif. 90948The Clarendon Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 285 pages. -- with a bonus offer--; The Soho Bibliographies . 1976. 0198181612 . The Clarendon Press hardcover
2000rif. 90919Cambridge University Press. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 300 pages. -- with a bonus offer--; Cambridge Philosophical Texts in Context; This volume sets Berkeley's philosophy in its historical context by providing selections from works that deeply influenced Berkeley as he formed his main doctrines; works that illuminate the philosophical climate in which those doctrines were formed; and works that display Berkeley's subsequent philosophical influence. The first category is represented by selections from Descartes Malebranche Bayle and Locke; the second category includes extracts from such thinkers as Regius Lanion Arnauld Lee and Norris; while reactions to Berkeley both positive and negative are drawn from a wide range of thinkers--Leibniz Baxter Hume Diderot Voltaire Reid Kant Herder and Mill. . 2000. 0521498066 . Cambridge University Press paperback
2007rif. 90802Palgrave Macmillan. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 231 pages. -- with a bonus offer--; Coleridge and the Crisis of Reason examines Coleridge's understanding of the Pantheism Controversy - the crisis of reason in German philosophy - and reveals the context informing Coleridge's understanding of German thinkers. It challenges previous accounts of Coleridge's philosophical engagements forcing a reconsideration of his reading of figures such as Schelling Jacobi and Spinoza. This exciting new study establishes the central importance of the contested status of reason for Coleridge's poetry accounts of the imagination and later religious thought. . 2007. 0230521649 . Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
1990rif. 28927New York New York U.S.A.: Anchor Books. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- -- with a bonus offer--; T-Berkhumlock; PHILOSOPHY BRITISH HISTORY SURVEYS . 1990. 0385096224 . Anchor Books paperback
