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180365196New Haven: From Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke & Co 1803. First American edition from the fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. 8vo. Contemporary sheep red morocco labels gilt ornamentation. Upper joint starting rubbed some spotting and browning of text two pages advertisements at back for books available at Increase Cooke and Co. upper inner hinge cracked with the signature of S. L. Crocker Jr. on the endpapers. In a leather tipped brown cloth open end case. First American edition 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 first printed here not noted in BAL. 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; Jessop "Bibliography of Berkeley" 16H; Shaw and Shoemaker 3784 From Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke & Co unknown books
1732WRCLIT35680London: Printed for J. Tonson 1732. 101-350;6358pp. Two volumes. Octavo. Contemporary calf. Engraved title vignettes. Ownership signature "J. Payne Jan. 24 1732/3" in each volume on front pastedown with authorship ascription in same hand in first as well as careful correction of the errata. Hinges cracked one board detached occasional light foxing otherwise a crisp large very nice set. 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. ROTHSCHILD 374. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 176n. ESTC T86056. Printed for J. Tonson unknown books
1732WRCLIT65559London: Printed for J. Tonson 1732. 141-356;821812215-351pp. Two volumes. Octavo. Contemporary calf. Engraved title vignettes. Three bookplates in each volume along with a faint old seminary stamp on each title scattered foxing joints a bit worn and cracked but cords sound; a good set. Second London 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 fourth edition of his ESSAY TOWARDS A NEW THEORY OF VISION first published in 1709. KEYNES 17. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 176n. ESTC T86055. Printed for J. Tonson unknown books
1957173818Berkeley: University of California 1957. hardcover. very good. In Honor of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne 1685-1753. Ownership signature on 1/2 title. Berkeley: University of California Press 1957. Very good<br/><br/> University of California unknown books
1899024911Oxford: Clarendon Press 1899. 5th Edition Amended. An initroduction to the problems of modern philosophy for the use of students in colleges and university by Alexander Campbell Fraser. xlviii 336p. original burgundy cloth. Clarendon Press unknown books
1913260247Leipzig: Verlag von Felix Meiner 1913. xxiv 139p. plus a brief menu of publisher's offerings hardbound in 7.5 x5 inch grey boards with olive-drab backstrip neatly spine-titled possibly custom work certainly professional. Top edge tinted. Pastedown bears an unobjectionable old bookplate with scientific trimmings covers a little edgeworn label slightly rubbed a nice sound copy. Philosophische Bibliothek Band 149. Use "tar-water" to ameliorate plague symptoms. Berkeley addresses the question which sort of tar-water. Verlag von Felix Meiner unknown books
1746WRCLIT65696Dublin Printed London Re-printed: For W. Innys C. Hitch and M. Cooper . 1746. 1742; 45-88pp. Octavo. Modern half-calf and marbled boards. Faint blindstamp and ink shelf number the latter on verso of title of The Library of the Society for the Home Study of Holy Scripture and Church History first title leaf a trace foxed otherwise a very good copy. New i.e. Third London edition of the first title Keynes's variant A1b with "A Letter to T.P. ." on the verso of the title. This copy has p. 160 misnumbered '610'. The second title is also a "New Edition" i.e. the second London edition and exhibits Keynes's second corrected state of the title leaf: 'Holbourn'. Berkeley first noticed the use of tar-infused water during his residence in America and although cautious in his initial conclusions he soon became an advocate of its use as an economical aid for the betterment of the health of the Irish people. Although by no means wanting in exposition of Berkeley's larger philosophical considerations the practical aspects of SIRIS led to its being his most popular work and the investigation of tar-water generated a significant body of pamphlet literature in response well delineated by Keynes among which Prior's work is one of the most significant. ESTC cites Bowyer's ledger in reporting the edition of the first title consisted of 1000 copies and that of the second title 2000 copies. KEYNES BERKELEY 68 & 104. ESTC T45794 & T125698. For W. Innys, C. Hitch, and M. Cooper .. hardcover books
174439792Dublin & London: W. Innys and C. Hitch 1744. 8vo. 174 2pp. 18th cent. calf rebacked corners worn endpapers renewed. Light toning. Bridgewater Library bookplate. New edition. W. Innys and C. Hitch unknown books
17342390London: Tonson 1734. first edition. contemporary calf. Very Good. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORKS IN THE HISTORY OF CALCULUS. In 1731 Berkeley returned to England from the New World where he had spent years working to open a new college with the support of a royal charter. Despite having funds earmarked for the college no funds were ever released and he had grown tired of the whole affair - and of those who held the money he was meant to receive. Moreover "reports of growing infidelity in English society to which he was always liable to give credence were fueled by the continuing bad faith of the government in failing to lodge the funds he considered legally his." Stewart.<br /> <br /> Perhaps pushed by this diminishing opinion of the English gentry he revisited his earlier attacks on the secular 'freethinkers' and composed The Analyst "an acute and influential critique of the foundations of Newton's calculus." Downing. As Stewart explains "Berkeley considered the theory incoherent and a disservice to mathematics but one which if unchecked might reinforce prevailing views on the divisibility of matter and support infidelity."<br /> <br /> Within the criticism Berkeley raises careful arguments which often employ sophisticated philosophical distinctions. For example as Andersen explains "Berkeley acknowledged that mathematicians who applied Newton's method of fluxions or Leibniz's calculus ended up with valid results. However . he considered their calculations to be based on incorrect assumptions and to violate the rules of logic." As such he wished "to explain why this may come to pass and show how Error may bring forth Truth though it cannot bring forth Science." Berkeley.<br /> <br /> However between these arguments we find marvelously snide often comedic complaints about the whole approach. For example: "Now to conceive a Quantity infinitely small that is infinitely less than any sensible or imaginable Quantity or than any the least finite Magnitude is I confess above my Capacity. But to conceive a Part of such infinitely small Quantity that shall be still infinitely less than it and consequently though multiply'd infinitely shall never equal the minutest finite Quantity is I suspect an infinite Difficulty to any Man whatsoever". Berkeley.<br /> <br /> The concepts of the infinitesimal quantities of calculus haunted Berkeley and he returned to it repeatedly in his criticism most notably in his famous passage near the end of the book where he memorably referred to such infinitesimals as "ghosts of departed quantities". <br /> <br /> Note: This is the true first edition printed in London in 1734. A Dublin edition was also published in 1734 but appears to be a reprinting with some changes of the London first see Wilkins 2002. These were the only editions published in Berkeley's lifetime.<br /> <br /> References: Andersen K. 2011 "One of Berkeley's arguments on compensating errors in the calculus." Historica Mathematica 38. Cajori F. 1919 A History of Mathematics. 2nd ed. revised and enlarged. Macmillan 1919; Downing Lisa 2020 "George Berkeley" The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Spring 2020 Edition Edward N. Zalta ed.; Stewart M. 2005. Berkeley George 1685-1753 Church of Ireland bishop of Cloyne and philosopher. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.; Wilkins D. 2002 edited version of The Analyst.<br /> <br /> London: J. Tonson 1734. Octavo contemporary full calf; custom box. Without errata leaf and final blank but with fragment of interesting binder's scrap showing ghost of part of the title page and partial blank bound in rear. With two manuscript corrections as usual on p. 85. Repairs to joints and spine; some spots of scattered foxing but text generally very clean. RARE. Tonson unknown books
1955UBERTHR00twOpen Court Publishing 1955. Good. Berkeley George. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. La Salle IL: Open Court Publishing 1955. 136pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Good. Scuffed covers bumped edges spine has small tears and light water stains with unmarked pages. . Open Court Publishing paperback books
1954UHYLTHR00SJRBobbs-Merrill 1954. Very Good. Berkeley George. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. NY: Bobbs-Merrill 1954. 113pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing and bumping. Previous owner's name penned on first page. Bobbs-Merrill paperback books
1954UBERTHR02HMRLibrary of Liberal Arts 1954. Good. Berkeley George. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. Indianapolis: Library of Liberal Arts 1954. 113pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good. Sunned and creased with rubbed edges and penciled scribbles on rear cover. Faint stain in bottom edges of pages. Library of Liberal Arts paperback books
1954UBERTHR00HMRThe Library of Liberal Arts 1954. Good. Berkeley George. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. Indianapolis: The Library of Liberal Arts 1954. 113pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with rubbed edges. Former owner's name penned on inside of rear cover. The Library of Liberal Arts paperback books
1947432481947. <p>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. </p> <p>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. </p> <p>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. </p> . unknown books
1959S3554New York:: Reinhold 1959. 1959. 8vo. v 203 pp. Index. Cloth dust-jacket. Ex-library copy mostly rubber ownership stamps but in good working condition. Reinhold, (1959). hardcover books
196522540Newtonville MA: International Data Corporation 1965. Near fine in printed vinyl binder. First Edition. Quarto sheets in three-ring binder. Advertisement for Honda laid in. Proceedings of an early commercially oriented computer conference held on November 19th 1964 in Newtonville Massachusetts. The notebooks describe a wide range of computer equipment and applications. Speakers included computer science pioneer and antinuclear activist Edmund C. Berkeley known for having designed "Simon" the first "personal computer" in 1950. In January 1963 Berkeley was also the first person in print to describe an image as "computer art" upon publishing an image created by Israeli computer scientist Efraim Arazi in the magazine "Computers and Automation". Co-speaker Patrick J. McGovern had begun the EDP Industry & Market Report a year prior in 1964; that publication would eventually morph into both Computer World and PC World as well as spawning the "For Dummies" book series. McGovern achieved massive financial success; at time of death in 2014 his net worth was estimated by Forbes at in excess of five billion dollars. Overall a fascinating document from just before the dawn of the microprocessor revolution. Newtonville, MA: International Data Corporation unknown books
1949111716New York: John Wiley & Sons 1949. First edition second printing of this important work which popularized cognitive images of early computers. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Erwin Tomash with warmest greetings for more than 20 years together in the computer field from Ed Berkeley October 11 1975." The recipient Erwin Tomash was an engineer who co-founded Dataproducts Corporation which specialized in computer technology specifically printers and core memory units. He is recognized for his early pioneering work with computer equipment peripherals. Tomash led the creation of the Charles Babbage Institute and is responsible for The Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Technology and The Erwin Tomash Library. With Erwin Tomash's bookplate to the pastedown near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional association linking these two pioneers in the field. Edmund C. Berkeley became famous in 1949 with the publication of his book Giant Brains or Machines That Think in which he described the principles behind computing machines called then "mechanical brains" "sequence-controlled calculators" or various other terms and then gave a technical but accessible survey of the most prominent examples of the time including machines from MIT Harvard the Moore School Bell Laboratories and elsewhere. In Giant Brains Berkeley also outlined a device which some have described as the first "personal computer" Simon. Plans on how to build this computer were published in the journal Radio Electronics in 1950 and 1951. Simon used relay logic and cost about $600 to construct. The first working model was built at Columbia University with the help of two graduate students. Berkeley founded published and edited Computers and Automation the first computer magazine. He also created the Geniac and Brainiac toy computers. John Wiley & Sons hardcover books
198812094Tuscaloosa and London: Alabama 1988. First edition 8vo pp. xv-xviii 357; frontis. portrait and 24 illus. in text; mint in jacket. Explorer and surveyor in America before 1850 Featherstonhaugh promoted the formation of the U.S. Geological Survey. Chapters on Minnesota and Wisconsin. <br/><br/> Alabama unknown books
1963qms435Chapel 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
1995045613Tallahassee: University Presses of Florida 1995. 3rd Printing. xvi 376p. b/w illus. maps original stiff printed wrappers. University Presses of Florida unknown books
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
197576129Chapel 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
19691309905Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press 1969. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 379; VG/no-DJ; dark green spine with gilt text; 3/4 bound binding with dark green spine and light green boards; cloth shows minor rubbing to edges; light shelf wear to exterior; text block has dark green endpapers; previous owner's stamped to head edge and ffep; interior clean; illustrated. 1309905. FP New Rockville Stock. The University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
1999219000Columbia: MJB 1999. First. hardcover. very good. A few Illus. 8vo blue cloth. Columbia: MJB 1999. Very good<br/><br/> Bibliography of books on World War I published by Matthew J. Bruccoli.<br/><br/> MJB unknown books
23443BARTRAM BERKELEY Edmund and Dorthy Smith Berkeley. THE CORRESPONDENCE O JOHN BARTRAM 1734-1777. Gainesville: University Press of Florida 1992. 8vo. Cloth. 809 pages. Fir edition. An illustrated edition of the most comprehensive assembly of Bartram's letter edited by the Berkeleys. Now out-of-print this book was originally publishe at $125.00. Fine. unknown books
