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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, books
1913Best.-Nr. 198327Chicago: Open Court Pub Co 1913. Hardcover. Good. Good Piece of spine coming off. Pages soiled on bottom corner. Open Court Pub Co hardcover books
1954Best.-Nr. 116745IN: Library of Liberal Arts 1954. Softcover. Good. Good in wrappers. Writing and notations in text. Light browning of pages. Cover rubbed with some staining and browning. Library of Liberal Arts unknown books
1713Best.-Nr. 140947370London: Henry Clements 1713. First Edition Third Edition. First edition first printing of George Berkeley's work of philosophy. x 166 vi 44 pp. Octavo bound in full contemporary mottled calf laced in boards. Blindstamped ruled borders red morocco title label to spine all edges speckled red. Bound together with the third edition of another work by Berkeley also published by Henry Clements in 1713: Passive Obedience Or the Christian Doctrine Of Not Resisting the Supreme Power Proved and Vindicated upon the Principles of the Law of Nature. In a Discourse Deliver'd at the College-Chapel. Very Good with moderate wear to boards cracking to leather at extremities minimal chipping at head and tail of spine and rounded and bumped corners. Joints repaired leather coated with preservative. Previous owner names have been torn from free endpapers cut more carefully from upper margins of first two leaves. Several 18th century ink markings and inscription "Owner / 1720" remain on the endpapers. The two books are printed on different paper stock. Three Dialogues is slightly tanned with scattered foxing to margins; Passive Obedience is heavily toned. Both books collated complete. From the library of William A. Strutz with his small bookplate to the front pastedown. George Berkeley 1685 - 1753 was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and clergyman who advocated the view that objects cannot exist without being perceived. He wrote Three Dialogues in order to expand on the ideas expressed in his most notable work A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Passive Obedience is a call to obey established authorities God above all. That a third edition was published just one year after the first is testament to the intensity of Enlightenment debates about the relationships between individuals and church and state. Henry Clements unknown books
1874Best.-Nr. 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 books
1922Best.-Nr. 1110172330xbvkBerlin, Reuther & Reichard, 1922. 72 Seiten. - Orig.-Umschlag mit Deckel- und Rückentitel; 8vo.
1999Best.-Nr. 219000Columbia: MJB 1999. First. hardcover. very good. A few Illus. 8vo blue cloth. Columbia: MJB 1999. Very good Bibliography of books on World War I published by Matthew J. Bruccoli. MJB unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 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
1958Best.-Nr. 15574New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Sixth Printing. Signed by Berkeley on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket unclipped no price a few short tears and shallow chips. Beige cloth with black ink lettering and rules on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound foxed at the top edge clean internally. Berkeley's general audience work about early computers and artificial intelligence. John Wiley and Sons Inc hardcover books
1992Best.-Nr. dacs997Gainesville: University Press of Florida 1992. First Edition. Octavo gray cloth hardcover xv 808 pp 1 pp. Frontis. ports. Fine. University Press of Florida, (1992). First Edition. hardcover books
1963Best.-Nr. qms435Chapel 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
Best.-Nr. 34444BERKELEY 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
1975Best.-Nr. 76129Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover in jacket. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches bound in blue cloth with pictorial end pages. Complete in 283 pages with some illustrations. . University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
1978Best.-Nr. 19381New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1978. cloth dust jacket. thick 8vo. cloth dust jacket. xx 565 pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Clifton Waller Barrett followed by sections on the Fundamentals Rudiments and Areas in Which to Collect. Includes sections on forgery and forgers. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1952Best.-Nr. 318724New York: Edmund C. Berkeley and Associates 1952. First edition. 34 pp. 4to. Plain printed wrappers. Near fine. Contemporary ownership ink stamps to front cover back cover and title page. Provenance: Ink stamp of Samuel Jacobs__; Bookplate of Erwin Tomash. First edition. 34 pp. 4to. Edmund C. Berkeley and Associates unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 233150The University of North Carolina Press 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x0x9. NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE PAPERBACK EDITION! Hardcover Second printing published in 1975 with a dust jacket. Both jacket and book show little wear. They are Clean have a good binding with no marks or notations. Prompt shipping. S.U. The University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
1928Best.-Nr. 94878New York: J.H. Sears 1928. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with some tiny nicks and tears and with a George Bernard Shaw blurb. Biographical novel about Cavell a World War I British nurse executed by the Germans for helping POWs escape novelized by Berkeley from his play and his screen-story for the 1928 silent film of the same name. Little remembered now the film was understandably controversial in its time and was suppressed in some markets and consequently a blockbuster in others. Cavell is memorialized today with a statue just off of Trafalgar Square. J.H. Sears hardcover books
1964Best.-Nr. 42061964. VG. Signed by the author. Black wraps. 24 pp. 2 bw 5 color plates. Introduction by Herschel B. Chipp. Essay by Erle Loran Hans Hofmann and His Work. The included plates highlight the University's holdings of Hofmann's work which at this time numbered 45. Hofmann taught at Berkeley when he was obscure and always held it in high regard; hence the donation of these pictures and money to build a wing with his name on it. In the essay the story of the exhibition and an explanation of the works is provided. paperback books
1969Best.-Nr. 83681969. Softcover. G one set of staple holes throughout at RH edge. Color wraps. 51 pp. 7 color 11 bw plates. "Richard Lindner's art derives from very personal sexual obsessive visions. The characters who inhabit his paintings are the robots of twentieth-century urban life.specifically New Yorkers." Includes the essay "Richard Lindner 'the secret of the inner voice'" by Dore Ashton an interview by Dean Swanson the plates an exhibition checklist of 87 works bibliography biography and exhibitions. paperback books
1963Best.-Nr. 31432Berkeley: University of California 1963. Softcover. VG- light wear and scuffing to cover edges. Black and color illustrated wraps with green lettering;. 55 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. Includes works by Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka. "Organized by the Committee for Arts and Lectures at the University of California Berkeley." Includes bibliographical references page 15. University of California paperback books
1980Best.-Nr. 66251980. Softcover. VG previous owner stamps inside cover. Wraps. 58 pp. 21 color plates. Catalogue and short essay written by Mark Rosenthal. Also includes some isolated and I suppose important quotations by the artist arranged chronologically. Catalogue lists 34 works. Bibliography. Lovely color plates. paperback books
1930Best.-Nr. 1403621Garden City: Published for the Crime Club Inc by Doubleday Doran & Company 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo 339 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is black with red print. Boards in black cloth red print; fraying to spine caps and corners mild shelf wear cocked spine. Text block has cracked hinges intermittent spine breaks shaken binding name in ink on half-title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1403621. FP New Rockville Stock. Published for the Crime Club, Inc by Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
1938Best.-Nr. 70676NY: Doubleday 1938. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Boards lightly rubbed corners bumped spine sunned else a good example in publisher's black cloth lettered in red. Doubleday hardcover books
1933Best.-Nr. 27608New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Near Fine in Very Good dj. c.1933. Reprint. Hardcover. nice tight clean book with just a touch of shelfwear; the jacket is modestly edgeworn very slight paper loss at base of spine a few short closed tears at the top and bottom edges of the front panel with the one at the bottom having also occasioned some creasing and a tiny surface-scrape in the upper right area of the front panel. "Another page from the career of Mr. Roger Sheringham whose proclivities in the direction of beer and criminology have given him an international following. It concerns the unfortunate sequence of events which began with one of the most extraordinary of murders and involves Sheringham for the firt time in his career on the side against the police." Berkeley who also wrote as "A.B. Cox" and "Francis Iles" featured Sheringham in ten novels published between 1925 and 1934 of which this was the ninth. It was also published in England under the title "Jumping Jenny." . Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 419795New York: Doubleday Doran & Company for The Crime Club 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition. Owner's small bookplate on front pastedown binders glue offsetting on endpapers and pastedowns very good in an about very good foxed and edgeworn dustwrapper with internal tape repair on chipped top spine end. A mystery novel especially scarce in jacket. Doubleday, Doran & Company for The Crime Club hardcover books
