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1894Best.-Nr. 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
1732Best.-Nr. 170650London: Printed by J. Tonson 1732. The idealist philosopher's most substantial work First edition of Berkeley's defence of traditional Anglicanism against the nascent secularism of the early Enlightenment: a major work of 18th-century Christian apologetics. Alciphron is a critical source for Berkeley's wider philosophy of language. Berkeley 1685-1753 defends the Theist position that the world is dependent on an interventionist God providing religious knowledge through miracles and divine revelation. Enlightenment thinkers increasingly argued that a non-interventionist deity had created the universe to operate autonomously on machine-like principles and laws. In such a scenario the miracles and revelations of an interventionist God were of little use as a source of religious knowledge which was possible only through rational reflection. In challenging these ideas Berkeley collectively represents their chief exponents Locke Mandeville and the third Earl of Shaftesbury as the conceited free thinkers Alciphron and Lysicles. Volume II includes a revised edition of Berkeley's An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision first published in 1709 with a new title page and continuous register. In the Advertisement Berkeley notes that his earlier work is included as an addendum to the fourth dialogue which concerns the function of the senses in deriving knowledge of God. 2 vols octavo 194 x 120 mm. Wood engraving to title pages of both vols. Contemporary panelled calf neatly rebacked and recornered spines ruled and lettered in gilt raised bands edges sprinkled red. 18th-century signature of "William McGuire" to title page of vol. II. Light rubbing cosmetic splits to inner hinges minor browning and foxing to endpapers and edges loss to upper outer corner of title page vol. I small hole in F8 vol. I: a very good copy. Jessop 121a; Keynes 15. hardcover
1938Best.-Nr. 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
2018Best.-Nr. __1474306896LexisNexis UK 2018. Hardcover. New. 5th new edition edition. 3558 pages. 10.20x6.50x4.25 inches. LexisNexis UK hardcover
1995Best.-Nr. 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
1938Best.-Nr. 451London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited 1938. First Edition. Very good/Good. 8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. 182 x 121mm; pp. 356 iii. Grey cloth binding with black lettering dampstain to the tail of the spine light toning to the edges of the pages but no stains or foxing. Dust jacket present with some tears and chips to the head and tail and a 1 x 2 in. piece missing to back. The first edition of this classic arsenic murder with its DUST JACKET. The book was published one year later in the US under the title "A Puzzle in Poison" see our inventory no. 450. Anthony Berkeley Cox 1893 - 1971 is today recognized as a key figure in the development of crime fiction. He wrote under several pen-names including Francis Iles Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts. He was educated at Sherborne School and University College Oxford. He served in the British Army during the First World War and worked as a journalist for many years contributing to such magazines as Punch and The Humorist. His first novel was published in 1925 and it introduced the amateur detective Robert Sheringham who would feature in many of his novels through 1934. In 1930 Berkeley founded the Detection Club in London along with Agatha Christie Freeman Wills Crofts Dorothy L. Sayers Hugh Walpole and other established mystery writers. Several of his books were adapted for the screen including "Before the Fact" adapted by Alfred Hitchcock as "Suspicion" starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. Hodder & Stoughton Limited unknown
1820Best.-Nr. 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,
1930Best.-Nr. 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
1938Best.-Nr. 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
1948Best.-Nr. 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
1935Best.-Nr. 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
1732Best.-Nr. 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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1962Best.-Nr. 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
1976Best.-Nr. 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
2000Best.-Nr. 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
2007Best.-Nr. 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
1990Best.-Nr. 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
1944Best.-Nr. 16269London England: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. . As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - IMPORTANT: Interior text is clean tight and Unmarked Pages are intact and tight to the spine -- with a bonus offer--; 016269; Berkeley George Philosophical Commentaries Generally Called the Commonplace Book . 1944. Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 56718George Routledge & Sons Limited. As New. Hardcover. 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 - - ND; introduction dated 1878. 220 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . N.D. George Routledge & Sons Limited hardcover
Best.-Nr. 14247Library of Liberal Arts / Bobbs-Merrill. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Fine. Copyright 1954; 10th printing -- with a bonus offer--; 014247 . Library of Liberal Arts / Bobbs-Merrill paperback
1986Best.-Nr. 13835Chicago Illinois U.S.A.: Open Court Pub Co. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- with a bonus offer--; 013835; KNOWLEDGE THEORY PHILOSOPHY EPISTEMOLOGY . 1986. 0875484468 . Open Court Pub Co paperback
Best.-Nr. 24739Oxford England: Clarendon Press. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FOUR 4 VOLUME SET --Corresponds to / earlier edition of ISBN: 1855063352 -- with a bonus offer--; 015980-2; Berkeley George with Prefaces Annotations Appendices & An Account of His Life By Fraser Alexander Campbell Works of George Berkeley.Including His Posthumous Works in Four Volumes - Vol. 1: Philosophical Works; 1705 - 1721; Vol. II - Philosophical Works 1732 - 1733; Vol. III: Philosophical Works 1734-1752; Vol. IV: Miscellaneous Works 1707-1750 . 1901. 1855063352 . Clarendon Press hardcover
2005Best.-Nr. 91648Continuum. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 248 pages. Description: "The first essay in David Berman's new collection examines the full range of Berkeley's achievement looking not only at his classic works of 1709-1713 but also Alciphron 1732 and his final book the enigmaic Siris 1744. Item two examines a key problem in Berkeley's New Theory of Vision 1709 : why does the moon look larger on the horizon than in the meridian The third item criticizes the view still uncritically accepted by many that Berkeley's attacks on materialism are levelled against Locke. Part 2 opens with Berman's two essays of 1982 - the first to show that Berkeley came from a rich and coherent Irish philosophical background. Next comes a discussion of the link between Berkeley and Francis Hutcheson and particularly their answers to the Molyneux problem which Berman takes to be the root problem of Irish philosophy. The fourth essay looks at the impact of the golden age Irish philosophy on eighteenth-century American philosophy where again Berkeley has a central position. The last item examines Berkeley's influence on Samuel Beckett. Part 3 shows the many-sidedness of Berkeley's career which is missed by those who concentrate exclusively on his work of 1709-1713. Each item here presents new material on Berkeley's life or on his works and thought; most of these are new letters not included in the Luce-Jessop edition of the Works of Berkeley. This section therefore can be seen a supplement to volumes 8 and 9 of the Works and also to Luce's Life of Berkeley. " -- with a bonus offer--; Continuum Studies In British Philosophy; The first essay in David Berman's new collection examines the full range of Berkeley's achievement looking not only at his classic works of 1709-1713 but also Alciphron 1732 and his final book the enigmatic Siris 1744. The book also examines a key problem in Berkeley's New Theory of Vision 1709: Why does the moon look larger on the horizon than in the meridian The third item criticises the view still uncritically accepted by many that Berkeley's attacks on materialism are levelled against Locke. Part 2 opens with Berman's two essays of 1982 - the first to show that Berkeley came from a rich and coherent Irish philosophical background. Next comes a discussion of the link between Berkeley and Francis Hutcheson and particularly their answers to the Molyneux problem which Berman takes to be the root problem of Irish philosophy. The fourth essay looks at the impact of Golden Age Irish philosophy on eighteenth-century American philosophy where again Berkeley had a central position. The last item examines Berkeley's influence on Samuel Beckett. Part 3 shows the multifaceted nature of Berkeley's career which is missed by those who concentrate exclusively on his work of 1709-1713. Each section here presents new material on Berkeley's life or on his works and thought; most of these are new letters not included in the Luce-Jessop edition of the Works of Berkeley. This volume therefore can be seen a supplement to volumes 8 and 9 of the Works and also to Luce's Life of Berkeley. . 2005. 0826485901 . Continuum hardcover
2002Best.-Nr. 75538Gallery; Et Al. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 102 pp. With 36 col. Ills. 21 x 22 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2002. 0730830721 . Gallery; Et Al hardcover
