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ref. 116669Philadelphia 1856. Folio. 2 195-202 1 pp. large folding engr. plate. As issued uncut in sheets tears in margin. From the library of Thore M. Fries with his library stamp. Stafleu 17.647. Volbracht 455b without the plate. From volume 17 Botany and Cryptogamia of the ”United States Exploring Expedition during the Years 1838-1842 under the Command of Charles Wilkes”. The plate is drawn and engraved by Dougal. Moses Ashley Curtis 1808-72 was an American mycologist who together with the British mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley 1803-1889 published a large number of articles on mycology unknown
ref. 53257946-20Used - Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
1951ref. 004771LONDON.: COLLINS. 1951. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. A very good copy inscribed and signed by the author onto the ffep. 192 aged pages . No loss or tears or foxing. Dated 1951 on the copyright page. First UK edition. Outer maroon boards with silver lettering to the spine is unmarked and universal in colour throughout. The near fine dust jacket is complete with no faults.Price clipped. . COLLINS. hardcover
1734ref. 6310London: printed for Jacob Tonson 1734. First edition. Rare first edition first issue of Berkeley's renowned critique of Newton and Leibniz's calculus famously described by historian Florian Cajori as "the most spectacular event of the century in the history of British mathematics." Contemporaneously bound with Berkeley's influential Theory of Vision 1733 his Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics 1735 and five additional pamphlets. . BERKELEY'S FOUNDATIONAL CRITIQUE OF THE CALCULUS . First edition of Berkeley's famous attack on the calculus of Newton and Leibniz which the historian Florian Cajori described as "the most spectacular event of the century in the history of British mathematics" History of the Calculus p. 57 bound with Berkeley's important Theory of Vision 1733 and Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics 1735 and five further pamphlets. "The Analyst is a criticism of the calculus in both its Newtonian and Leibnizian formulations arguing that the foundations of the calculus are incoherent and the reasoning employed inconsistent. Berkeley's powerful objections provoked numerous responses and the task of replying to them set the agenda for much of British mathematics in the 1730s and 1740s" Jesseph p. 121. Perhaps the most famous passage in the book p. 59 and a vivid example of Berkeley's wit is his response to the idea that fluxions could be defined using ultimate ratios of vanishing quantities: 'It must indeed be acknowledged that Newton used Fluxions like the Scaffold of a building as things to be laid aside or got rid of as soon as finite Lines were found proportional to them. But then these finite Exponents are found by the help of Fluxions. Whatever therefore is got by such Exponents and Proportions is to be ascribed to Fluxions: which must therefore be previously understood. And what are these Fluxions The Velocities of evanescent Increments And what are these same evanescent Increments They are neither finite Quantities nor Quantities infinitely small nor yet nothing. May we not call them the Ghosts of departed Quantities' Modern historians have argued that the expression 'Ghosts of departed Quantities' was intended to address both Leibnizian infinitesimals and Newtonian fluxions. "Berkeley's attack on the calculus pointed out real deficiencies . his attack was also incisive witty and infuriating. Many mathematicians were moved to try to answer it. In fact several important eighteenth-century discussions of the foundations of the calculus can be traced back to Berkeley's attack. For instance Maclaurin's monumental two-volume A Treatise ofFluxions began as a reply to Berkeley. Berkeley's attack had a more lasting effect than simply stimulating an immediate set of replies; it served to keep the question of foundations alive and under discussion and it pointed to the questions which had to be answered if a successful foundation were to be given. D'Alembert and Lazare Carnot both used some of Berkeley's arguments in their own discussions of foundations and Lagrange took Berkeley's criticisms with the utmost seriousness" Grabiner p. 27. Despite these 18th century attempts calculus was not placed on a secure foundation until around 1820 with the work of Bolzano and Cauchy on the theory of limits. The 'Infidel Mathematician' in the title is thought to be Edmund Halley 1656-1742. "As a result of the publication of The Analyst there appeared within the next seven years some thirty pamphlets and articles which attempted to remedy the situation. The first appeared in 1734 a pamphlet by James Jurin Geometry No Friend to Infidelity . Berkeley answered Jurin in 1735 in A Defence of Freethinking in Mathematics bound in the offered volume and justly asserted that the latter was attempting to defend what he did not understand. In this work Berkeley again appealed to the divergence in Newton's views - as presented in De analysi the Principia and De quadratura - to show a lack of clarity in the ideas of moments fluxions and limits . In the meantime however numerous attempts some noteworthy and others insignificant were made to find new and more satisfactory forms and arguments in which to present Newton's method. By far the ablest and most famous of these was made by Colin Maclaurin. In his Treatise of Fluxions in 1744 he aimed not to alter the conceptions invlolved in Newton's fluxions but to demonstrate the validity of his method by rigorous procedures of the ancients - to deduce the new analysis from a few 'unexceptional principles'. Maclaurin professed in the preface of this work that the Analyst controversy had given occasion to his treatise" Boyer. Berkeley's Theory of Vision 1733 also bound into this volume is a follow-up and defence of his earlier Essay towards a New Theory of Vision 1709 in which he had attacked Newton's cosmology. Keynes describes the 1733 as a work "of major importance". "Most mathematicians who dealt with calculus techniques in the early 18th century did not worry overmuch about foundational questions. Indeed it is significant that the first intensive discussion on the foundations of the calculus was not caused by difficulties encountered in working out or applying the new techniques but by the critique of an outsider on the pretence of mathematicians that their science is based on secure foundations and therefore attains truth. The outsider was Bishop George Berkeley 1685-1753 the famous philosopher and the target of his critique is made quite clear in the title of the present work. In sharp but captivating words he exposed the vagueness of infinitely small quantities evanescent increments and their ratios higher-order differentials and higher-order fluxions para. 4: 'Now as our Sense is strained and puzzled with the perception of Objects extremely minute even so the Imagination which Faculty derives from Sense is very much strained and puzzled to frame clear Ideas of the least Particles of time or the least Increments generated therein: and much more so to comprehend the Moments or those Increments of the flowing Quantities in statu nascenti in their very first origin or beginning to exist before they become finite Particles. And it seems still more difficult to conceive the abstracted Velocities of such nascent imperfect Entities. But the Velocities of the Velocities the second third fourth and fifth Velocities &c. exceed if I mistake not all Humane Understanding. The further the Mind analyseth and pursueth these fugitive Ideas the more it is lost and bewildered; the Objects at first fleeting and minute soon vanishing out of sight. Certainly in any Sense a second or third Fluxion seems an obscure Mystery. The incipient Celerity of an incipient Celerity the nascent Augment of a nascent Augment i.e. of a thing which hath no Magnitude: Take it in which light you please the clear Conception of it will if I mistake not be found impossible whether it be so or no I appeal to the trial of every thinking Reader. And if a second Fluxion be inconceivable what are we to think of third fourth fifth Fluxions and so onward without end' "Further on comes the most famous quote from The analyst: 'And what are these Fluxions The Velocities of evanescent Increments And what are these same evanescent IncrementsThey are neither finite Quantities nor Quantities infinitely small nor yet nothing. May we not call them the Ghosts of departed Quantities' para. 35. Berkeley also criticised the logical inconsistency of working with small increments which first are supposed unequal to zero in order to be able to divide by them and finally are considered to be equal to zero in order to get rid of them. "Of course Berkeley knew that the calculus notwithstanding the unclarities of its fundamental concepts led with great success to correct conclusions. He explained this success - which led mathematicians to believe in the certainty of their science - by a compensation of errors implicit in the application of the rules of the calculus. For instance if one determines a tangent one first supposes the characteristic triangle similar to the triangle of ordinate sub-tangent and tangent which involves an error because these triangles are only approximately similar. Subsequently one applies the rules of the calculus to find the ratio dy/dx which again involves an error as the rules are derived by discarding higher-order differentials. These two errors compensate each other and thus the mathematicians arrive 'though not at Science yet at Truth For Science it cannot be called when you proceed blind-fold and arrive at the Truth not knowing how or by what means' para. 22" Grattan-Guinness pp. 88-9. "Aside from calling the rigor and coherence of the Newtonian fluxional calculus into question Berkeley argued that there was no useful distinction between it and the Leibnizian calculus differentialis. This charge had a significant ad hominem effect in the context of Newtonians' claims for the superior rigor of their procedures in comparison with those of the Leibnizian school. After remarking that Newton's method is 'in effect the same with that used in the calculus differentialis' because it requires a 'marvellous sharpness of Discernment to be able to distinguish between evanescent Increments and infinitesimal Differences' Section 17 Berkeley echoes the Newtonian complaints against Leibnizian infinitesimal differences by arguing that the Leibnizians make 'no manner of scruple first to supposed and secondly to reject Quantities infinitely small: with what clearness in the Apprehension and justness in the reasoning any thinking man who is not prejudiced in favour of these things may easily discern' Section 18. The result is that Newtonian criticisms of the Leibnizian calculus are turned against the calculus of fluxions itself and the foundations of the calculus are rendered obscure and burdened with apparent self-contradiction" Jesseph p. 128. "Berkeley's publication of The analyst took up two themes that had long been of concern to him one mathematical and the other theological. Mathematically it continued the reservations about the foundations of the calculus that Berkeley had voiced in an early essay 'Of infinites' that he presented to the Dublin Philosophical Society in 1709 and reprised in arts. 130-132 of the Principles. Theologically The analyst was part of Berkeley's battle against freethinking and his principal argument intends to show that freethinkers who deride revealed religion for its mysteries cannot consistently accept the calculus since it contains suppositions at least as extravagant and incomprehensible as anything in revealed religion. This aspect of his criticism is indicated in the full title of The analyst which characterizes the work as A Discourse addressed to an infidel mathematician; wherein it is examined whether the object principles and inferences of the modern analysis are more distinctly conceived or more evidently deduced than religious mysteries and points of faith and attributes it to 'The Author of The minute philosopher'. "Whether the work was directed at a specific 'infidel mathematician' is somewhat uncertain although there is evidence that Berkeley intended it for Edmond Halley. According to Berkeley's 18th-century biographer Joseph Stock the London physician Samuel Garth had declined the last rites in his final illness on the grounds that 'my friend Dr. Halley who has dealt so much in demonstration has assured me that the doctrines of Christianity are incomprehensible and the religion itself an imposture'. According to Stock Berkeley 'therefore took arms against this redoubtable dealer in demonstration and addressed the Analyst to him with a view of shewing that Mysteries in Faith were unjustly objected to by mathematicians who admitted much greater Mysteries and even falsehoods in Science of which he endeavoured to prove that the doctrine of fluxions furnished an eminent example' Stock pp. 29-30. Whomever The analyst was intended to address immediately its broader audience was unmistakably those mathematicians who regarded the calculus as a rigorous and properly founded method that compared favorably with the mysterious tenets of revealed religion" Jesseph pp. 123-4. "As a result of the publication of The Analyst there appeared within the next seven years some thirty pamphlets and articles which attempted to remedy the situation. The first appeared in 1734 a pamphlet by James Jurin Geometry No Friend to Infidelity . Berkeley answered Jurin in 1735 in A Defence of Freethinking in Mathematics and justly asserted that the latter was attempting to defend what he did not understand. In this work Berkeley again appealed to the divergence in Newton's views - as presented in De analysi the Principia and De quadratura - to show a lack of clarity in the ideas of moments fluxions and limits. Jurin's reply in the same year in The Minute Mathematician was again evasively tautological . Berkeley now dropped out of the controversy but the unsatisfactory nature of Jurin's arguments was pointed out by Benjamin Robins in A Discourse Concerning the Nature and certainty of Sir Isaac Newton's Methods of Fluxions and of Prime and Ultimate Ratios 1735 as well as in articles in current journals . numerous attempts some noteworthy and others insignificant were made to find new and more satisfactory forms and arguments in which to present Newton's method. By far the ablest and most famous of these was made by Colin Maclaurin. In his Treatise of Fluxions in 1742 he aimed not to alter the conceptions involved in Newton's fluxions but to demonstrate the validity of his method by rigorous procedures of the ancients - to deduce the new analysis from a few 'unexceptional principles'. Maclaurin professed in the preface of this work that the Analyst controversy had given occasion to his treatise" Boyer p. 228-33. According to Fraser The Works of George Berkeley III 1871 p. 257 the first edition of The Analyst was published in March 1734. Almost all copies including ours have the last two of the three instances of the word 'Science' in Query 36 p. 85 corrected by hand to 'Evidence'. That this is also the case in a presentation copy in the J. M. Keynes Collection King's College Cambridge leaves Keynes notes "no doubt as to Berkeley's intention"; this correction has been made in the version printed in the Works 1784. A second edition was published at Dublin later in the same year Keynes notes that Berkeley did not leave London for Ireland until April and that two of the three errata were corrected in the Dublin edition; it was advertised on 4 June in the Dublin Journal as "just published". The two texts are not identical; e.g. in para. 5 "of a plain an infinitely little plain" in the London text is corrected to "of a plane an infinitely little plane" in the Dublin text this is not noted in the errata to the first edition. Another edition was published at London in 1754. "A NewTheory of Vision 1709 reckoned by Brett's History of Psychology to have been 'the most significant contribution to psychology produced in the eighteenth century' being 'the first instance of clear isolation and purely relevant discussion of a psychological topic'. The main problem examined in this work is the factors that determine our ability to see things at a distance the assumption being that the sense of vision itself is incapable of doing so. Rather seeing distant objects requires the suggestions supplied by other senses especially that of touch as well as such other experiences as visual distortion caused by failure of eye accommodation. We do not 'judge' by means of quasi-optica1 calculation of the distance of objects the traditional account of Berkeley's predecessors; rather we let one group of sensations suggest another in virtue of experience and custom. Moreover from saying that all visual sensations 'seem to be in the eye' Berkeley moves to his basic contention later generalized in his Principles of Human Knowledge 1710 that visual ideas are in our minds. Given his general doctrine that the 'being' of things amounts to their being perceived i.e. being ideas in a mind the ultimate reference is to the divine mind he infers that external space is not basic but is 'only suggested' to us by visual ideas via tactile and other ideas" DSB. "Critics seized upon the inconsistency that Berkeley highlights by portraying objects of touch as outside the mind while objects of vision are within the mind. In at least nine sections of the New Theory Berkeley described tactile properties as if they correspond to real substance. Although these sections were written prior to Principles Berkeley likely understood later in life how these passages undermined the essence of immaterialism. Such incongruities came to haunt him in 1732 when he republished New Theory as an appendix to a theological work called Alciphron. Later that year an abrasive critique of the republished thesis appeared as an anonymous letter in a prominent newspaper the Daily Post-Boy. After reading the critique Berkeley decided to write a supplement to New Theory of Vision clarifying why it was consistent with the philosophy articulated in Principles and Three Dialogues. His rebuttal was published the following year and was titled An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision Vindicated and Explained. This 71-paragraph essay skirts the thorny issues of immaterialism by conceding that materialists and immaterialists cannot have an honest conversation about vision to begin with. Berkeley reaffirms the consistency of ideas as reality in New Theory by rejecting matter exists outside the mind but did so without proposing any new metaphysical argument" Margo & Harman p. 230. The five other pamphlets bound in this volume are: BERKELEY George. Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of tar water and divers other subjects. . A new edition with additions and emendations. London printed for W. Innys C. Hitch C. Davis 1744. PRIOR Thomas and George BERKELEY. An authentic narrative of the success of tar- water: In curing a great number and variety of distempers with remarks. And occasional papers relative to the subject. To which are subjoined two Letters from the author of Siris. Dublin printed by Margt. Rhames for R. Gunne 1746. BERKELEY George. A discourse addressed to magistrates and men in authority: occasioned by the enormous license and irreligion of the times. London J. Roberts 1738. LYTTELTON George Baron. The court secret: a melancholy truth. Now first translated from the original Arabic. By an adept in the oriental tongues. London T. Brown 1742. CAREY Henry. A learned dissertation on dumpling: its dignity antiquity and excellence. With a word upon pudding. And many other useful discoveries of great benefit to the publick. . To which are added A poetical receipt to make an oatmeal pudding by the late Mr. John Dryden. The art of making hasty pudding by the late Dr. William King. Apple-pye. A poem by Mr. Welsted. And an essay on good eating by an eminent hand. The sixth edition. London T. Read 1744. Analyst: Barchas 167; ESTC T21863; Richard Green 31; Stanitz 52A; Honeyman 287; Keynes 32. Theory of Vision: Keynes 4. Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics: Keynes 36. Keynes Bibliography of George Berkeley 138a; Richard Green 31; Sotheran I 347; Stanitz 52A; Wallis 245.42. Boyer The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development 1949; Cajori A History of the Conceptions of Limits and Fluxions 1919; Grattan-Guinness From the Calculus to Set Theory 1630-1910 1980; Grabiner The Origins of Cauchy's Rigorous Calculus 1981; Jesseph 'George Berkeley The Analyst 1734' pp. 121-30 in Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940 Grattan-Guinness ed. 2005; Margo & Harman 'George Berkeley and the New Theory of Vision' Historia Ophthalmologica Internationbalis 2 2019 pp. 227-231. Stock An Account of the Life of George Berkeley 1776. Eight works in one volume 200 x 125 mm. Theory of Vision: pp .64; Analyst: pp. x 3-94 2 errata; Defence of Freethinking: pp. 71 1 blank; Siris: pp. 174 2 table of contents; Authentic Narrative: pp. 4 248 2 corrigenda et addenda; A Discourse: pp. 32; Court Secret: pp. 24; Learned Dissertation: pp ii ii 3-33 1 blank. Eighteenth-century quarter calf marbled boards spine and sides lightly rubbed hinges cracked but holding firmly some wear at extremities. printed for Jacob Tonson unknown
1934ref. 1703Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Co. The Crime Club 1934. First American Edition. Near Fine. 8vo 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches 190 x 130 mm; 8 347 pp. Publisher's red cloth title in black on spine and a skeleton figure on cover with "Member's Edition" scroll top edge stained red. Spine a tad faded with extremities lightly rubbed; binding tight paper evenly toned pages clean. The Crime Club edition and binding. Bookplate of Elisabeth Rall pasted inside front cover. Published the same year in the U.K. with the title "Panic Party" this is the tenth and final of Berkeley's novels to feature the amateur detective Roger Sheringham. When reviewing this title on 3rd June 1934 Dorothy L. Sayers sums up the plot as follows: 'A rich cynic maroons an ill-assorted generation of human vipers on a desert island informs them just for fun that one of them is an undetected murderer and sits back to enjoy their reactions. The first reaction very rightly is the murder of the cynic; after which Roger Sheringham has to grapple with the reactions to that.' 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. Doubleday, Doran & Co. (The Crime Club) unknown
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ref. 48990018-20Ulverscroft Large Print Books. Used - Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Ulverscroft Large Print Books unknown
ref. A9780807896181Paperback / softback. New. Offers the first full-length biography of a man who was primarily a botanist but who is best known for his map of North America. One of the period's outstanding cartographical achievements Mitchell's map served as the basis for the Treaty of 1783 and for the still-existing United States-Canadian border. paperback
ref. 113067London 1853 4to. 277-294 pp. lith. plate. Disbound. From the library of Thore M. Fries with his library stamp. Stafleu 20.962. Miles Joseph Berkeley 1803-1889 ”The founder of British mycology” systematist with some 6000 species of fungi being credited to him. Berkeley made very important contributions to the field of plant pathology. He composed the account of native British fungi in Sir W. Hooker’s ”British Flora” 1836 and his most important works are ”Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany” 1857 and his ”Outlines of British Fungology” 1860. He also published a large number of articles on mycology. The co-author Moses Ashley Curtis 1808-72 was an American mycologist. unknown
ref. 113072London 1857 4to. 129-132 pp. engr. plate. Disbound. From the library of Thore M. Fries with his library stamp. Not in Stafleu. Not in Volbracht. The plate is after Berkeley and engraved by G. Jarman. ”A very valuable collection of Fungi has been lately made by Fendler in Venezueal which are now for sale in the hands of the Rev. M. A. Curtis of South Carolina.”.Miles Joseph Berkeley 1803-1889 ”The founder of British mycology” systematist with some 6000 species of fungi being credited to him. Berkeley made very important contributions to the field of plant pathology. He composed the account of native British fungi in Sir W. Hooker’s ”British Flora” 1836 and his most important works are ”Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany” 1857 and his ”Outlines of British Fungology” 1860. He also published a large number of articles on mycology. unknown
ref. 113064London 1870 4to. 149-152 pp. 2 chromolith. plates. Sewn with blue wrapper. From the library of Thore M. Fries with his library stamp. Stafleu 20.963. Miles Joseph Berkeley 1803-1889 ”The founder of British mycology” systematist with some 6000 species of fungi being credited to him. Berkeley made very important contributions to the field of plant pathology. He composed the account of native British fungi in Sir W. Hooker’s ”British Flora” 1836 and his most important works are ”Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany” 1857 and his ”Outlines of British Fungology” 1860. He also published a large number of articles on mycology. The co-author Christopher Edmund Broome 1812-86 was also a British mycologist but he didn’t publish much. His herbarium contained at his death around 40000 fungal specimens which are now at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. unknown
ref. 113078London 1853 4to. 149-154 pp. engr. plate. Disbound. From the library of Thore M. Fries with his library stamp. Not in Stafleu. Volbracht suppl. 130a with wrong date. Miles Joseph Berkeley 1803-1889 ”The founder of British mycology” systematist with some 6000 species of fungi being credited to him. Berkeley made very important contributions to the field of plant pathology. He composed the account of native British fungi in Sir W. Hooker’s ”British Flora” 1836 and his most important works are ”Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany” 1857 and his ”Outlines of British Fungology” 1860. He also published a large number of articles on mycology. unknown
ref. 113071London 1846 4to. 1-4 pp. hand-coloured engr. plate. Disbound and with folding marks. With handwritten dedication to Elias Fries from the author! Stafleu 20.958. Volbracht suppl. 130a. Very fine association copy! There is a reference on page 2 to Elias Fries and his description of Agraricus crinitus. The plate is after C. Sowerby and engraved by G. Jarman. Miles Joseph Berkeley 1803-1889 ”The founder of British mycology” systematist with some 6000 species of fungi being credited to him. Berkeley made very important contributions to the field of plant pathology. He composed the account of native British fungi in Sir W. Hooker’s ”British Flora” 1836 and his most important works are ”Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany” 1857 and his ”Outlines of British Fungology” 1860. He also published a large number of articles on mycology. unknown
ref. 113069London 1841 4to. 575-579 pp. engr. plate. First leave with tear and the plate is cut down in size and loose. Disbound and with folding marks. With handwritten dedication to Elias Fries from the author! From the library of Thore M. Fries with library stamp. Not in Stafleu. Not in Volbracht. Very fine association copy! Miles Joseph Berkeley 1803-1889 ”The founder of British mycology” systematist with some 6000 species of fungi being credited to him. Berkeley made very important contributions to the field of plant pathology. He composed the account of native British fungi in Sir W. Hooker’s ”British Flora” 1836 and his most important works are ”Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany” 1857 and his ”Outlines of British Fungology” 1860. He also published a large number of articles on mycology. unknown
2004ref. 020714Norfolk VA U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru Publishers 2004. 1st edition. A fine unread copy fine in dust jacket. Number 11 in the Lost Classic Series. Low print run as the publisher states that "The first printing of each book will be small perhaps 400-500 copies divided between clothbound copies in dustjacket and trade softcover." In 1930 Anthony Berkeley Cox founded London's Detection Club. His novels and short stories are among the finest examples of the fair play challange-to-the-reader tradition of the Golden Age. Berkeley punctiliously presented all the clues to the reader but as Tony Medawar and Arthur Robinson point out in their introduction he loved showing that clues could be interpreted in multiple ways and Sheringham is often wrong in his conclusions. The title story in "The Avenging Chance" has long been considered one of the five or six greatest formal detective stories. This book also collects seven additional Sheringham and Moresby one of which "The Mystery of Horne's Copse" is a recently discovered novelette. Also included are Berkeley's own tongue-in-cheek satire of the Sheringham stories and a complete checklist of the Sheringham novels and tales. Introduction by Medwar and Robinson. . First Edition. Hard Cover. New/Fine. Illus. by Miller Deborah. Book. Crippen & Landru, Publishers Hardcover
ref. A9780198751618Paperback / softback. New. This student edition of Berkeley's 'Principles of Human Knowledge' includes the four letters between George Berkeley and Samuel Johnson written in 1729-30. The text is supplemented by a comprehensive introduction an analysis of the text a glossary detailed notes and a full bibliography with guidance on further reading. paperback
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1752ref. 67002Dublin: George Faulkner 1752. First Dublin edition. 12mo. 265 i.e. 262 pp. Pages 55-58 and 77-84 are cancels pages 85-86 omitted in numbering. Eleven tracts published separately 1721-1752 each with a separate title page. Includes A Proposal for the better supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be erected in the Summer-Islands otherwise called the Isles of Bermuda 1725. Berkeley 1685-1753 born in Kilkenny and an Anglican bishop served on a mission to America living in Rhode island 1728-1732 and afterward was named the Bishop of Cloyne 1734 to his death; his writings placed him among the important 18th-century British philosophers. Keynes Bibliography of George Berkeley 140. Contemporary calf rubbed some wear to joints and spine ends leather label between raised bands on spine. Very good. George Faulkner unknown
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1939ref. 450New York: The Sun Dial Press Inc 1939. Second American Edition. Fine/Fine. 8vo 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.198 x 140 mm; pp. x 277. Printed on cream wove paper deckle edges top edge red. Black cloth binding with red lettering on spine. Paper dust jacket in perfect condition. Previous owners name in ink inscribed on the inside front cover. Cox J. R. Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction pp 28-30. The second American edition of this classic arsenic murder DUST JACKET INTACT with striking lettering and a chilling skull-and-bone with red eyes. The book first appeared in London in 1938 with the title "Not to Be Taken" our inventory no. 451. The first US edition was issued as part of The Crime Club Selection. 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. The Sun Dial Press, Inc unknown
1938ref. 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
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1935ref. 005487London: Faber. A collection of short stories of crime by famous authors. No editor credited. Great dustwrapper art by McConnell. Dustwrapper has tiny chips on corners of spine. Dustwrapper states second series on spine . Very Good. Hardcover. 4th Edition. 1935. Faber hardcover
