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Berkeley GeorgeABAA
Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion against those who are called Free-Thinkers
1803réf. 65193New 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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