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182134921Dublin: For John Cumming 16 Lower Ormond-Quay 1821. A later edition of a work first published in London 1737 as: The Memoirs of Signor Gaudentio de Lucca. Period brown half-calf with marbled paper boards. General binding wear. Some age toning to paper. Pencil pos to front eps. Lacks rfep. A VG copy of a book now somewhat uncommon on the commercial market. 2 xxiii 1 blank 215 1 blank pp. Head- tailpieces. 12mo in 6s. 6-7/8" x 4" <br/><br/>Attributed to Berington by Halkett & Laing v. I p. 42. Sometimes attributed erroneously to George Berkeley as is the case here. For John Cumming, 16, Lower Ormond-Quay hardcover books
1939137986Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1939. Vintage photograph from the 1939 film musical based on the 1937 Rogers and Hart Broadway musical play of the same name. With a printed snipe on the verso along with the stamp of Culver Pictures photo bureau a date stamp of "Dec 1939" and holograph annotations regarding layout. <br/><br/>Rooney and Garland sing "God's Country" from the finale of the musical in a scene spoofing Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the FDR's fireside chats. This scene was cut from the film after Roosevelt's death and believed lost until it was rediscovered and restored in 1990s. Rooney received a Best Actor nomination for his role in the film. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good. Pinholes to the corners with pinholes at the corners and light wear to the margins. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 167. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1941141231Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1941. Vintage French pressbook for the 1941 US film. The third film in the "Backyard Musical" series which includes "Babes in Arms" "Strike Up the Band" and "Girl Crazy." Nominated fro an Academy Award for Best Music. <br/><br/>Near Fine with light toning overall and a small closed tear to the top margin. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
19272072271Jacobsen Publishing Company Inc 1927. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Farrow C.V. Includes scarce original jacket with C.V. Farrow artwork - currently the only copy in the trade that includes it. Ink gift note date 4/7/31 on front endpaper jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. Jacobsen Publishing Company, Inc hardcover books
197312946JGreenwich: New York Graphic Society 1973. First Edition. This copy belonged to the “Busby Berkeley girl†actress Gwen Seager and has several inscriptions to her. The book is inscribed by the author Jim Terry: “To Gwen With love and appreciation Jim Terry Sept 14 1973 Ps. You’re still a ‘great looking broad.’†Also inscribed by one of Busby Berkeley’s male dancers actor James Baker: “To Gwen. One of Busby’s lovelies. Jimmie Baker.†Additionally the book is signed by actress Vicki Vinton another of Berkeley’s girls and she has signed it rather charmingly. The title page is a wonderful large two page photograph of Berkeley huddled with a bevy of beautiful women. Vicki Vinton is in the front foreground semi-reclining and Vinton has signed her name on one of her long lithe legs. The definitive coffee-table book on Berkeley written with his cooperation with spectacular illustrations of his film musicals. Contains a foreword by Ruby Keeler. Near fine copy with some slight spotting to the rear board in a very good dust jacket with some edge wear and rubbing at the folds. Difficult to find in this condition. New York Graphic Society unknown books
180365193New 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
180365194New Haven: From Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke & Co 1803. First American from the Fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. 8vo. Contemporary calf red morocco gilt label. Spine worn rubbed some spotting and browning of leaves 2 pages advertisements for books available for sale at Increase Cooke & Co. with the signature of John S. Mabow and bookplate of Charles D. Spencer. 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; Shaw and Shoemaker 3784 From Sidney's Press, for Increase Cooke & Co unknown books
1793M13879Edinburgh:: Adamus Neill 1793. 1793. 2 works in one. Small 4to. 6 52; viii 54 pp. Half-title errata. Original full gilt-stamped tree-calf dark red gilt-stamped spine labels. Very good. First work: INSCRIBED "Mr. William Berkeley from his Affectionate Friend Brother the Author." Dedicated to Nelson Berkeley. Berkeley born in Virginia educated at the University of Edinburgh submits his doctoral thesis on the human body. Both Berkeley and Minor following studied under William Robertson 1721-1793 FRSE FSA was Principal at the University a noted scholar of Scotland and its history. Second work: MINOR Charles Carolus. Disputatio medica inauguralis: de typho: quam annuente summo numine Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri D. Gulielmi Robertson S.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; necnon Amplissimi Senatus Academici consensu Et nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae decreto; pro gradu doctoris summisque in Medicina Honoribus ac Privilegiis rite et Legitime consequendis ; eruditorum examini subjicit Carolus Minor Virginiensis; Societ. Phys. Americ. Soc. Extraord. Necnon Societ. Reg. Phys. Soc. Hon. Ad diem 24. Junii hora locoque solitis. Edinburgi: Excudebat Adamus Neill cum sociis 1793. PARISH HISTORY NOTES 22: DR. CARTER BURWELL BERKELEY. Here is a brief account of the life of Carter Burwell Berkeley a devout and highly admired member of the Fork Church congregation during the early nineteenth century: He was born at Airwell Virginia on February 20 1768 and performed his early studies under the tutelage of a Mr. Bell an Irish scholar in a small log cabin near Offley Mill. His higher education was completed in 1793 with the receipt of a degree in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. / Dr. Berkeley returned to Virginia and practiced medicine from his old home until his marriage to Catherine Spotswood Carter. In the year of their wedding 1796 they built Edgewood which was to remain his residence and office well beyond her death. Each Sunday neighbors were invited to dine at Edgewood after church services and this event became a grand social and intellectual tradition along Ridge Road. / It was Dr. Berkeley's philosophy to practice faith and medicine together. One patient described waking late one night during a serious illness to find Dr. Berkeley kneeling by her bed and praying for her recovery. According to Brief Biographies of Virginia Physician by L. B. Anderson 1889 a patient was quoted as saying "We prefer Dr. Berkeley to anyone else because what he failed to accomplish by his medical skill he would secure by his prayers." / On Sunday morning November 3 1839 Dr. Berkeley was involved with his duties as chief warden when he was asked by two other doctors to visit a sick man as early as possible. "He was introduced into the room of the patient and seating himself by the bed gently grasped the wrist to feel the pulse. Not a word was uttered not a movement was made except to incline his head as was his custom during profound thought." In time the other doctors found that life has passed from the good doctor. "Thus like the faithful sentinel he fell with his armor on and in the exercise of the noble functions of his high calling." theforkchurch – Dr Carter Burwell Berkeley. Adamus Neill, 1793. unknown books
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
1955140258Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1955. Vintage still photograph from the set of the 1955 film "Revenge of the Creature." Featuring a comical image of the film being shot in the water at Marineland Florida while a dolphin show takes place in the background. Half of the gathered crowd watches the dolphin show while the other half has turned to watch the Gill-man attack a diver bathing suit-clad cameramen milling about to the side. <br/><br/>The captive Gill-man Ricou Browning falls in love with the girlfriend Lori Nelson of animal psychologist Clete Ferguson John Agar. When it inevitably escapes and unsurprisingly takes Nelson hostage the police are forced to shoot it. The first 3-D sequel to a 3-D film its far more successful predecessor "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" and the only 3-D film released in 1955. Clint Eastwood makes a hilarious uncredited appearance as an incompetent lab technician who insists a lab rat has been eaten by a cat test subject only to find the rat in his lab coat pocket. <br/><br/>Set in Florida and shot there on location. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Just about Fine. <br/><br/>Weaver and Brunas Universal Horrors. Mystery Science Theater 801. Universal Pictures unknown books
186141821London: Hurst and Blackett 1861. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. London: Hurst and Blackett 1861. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Illustrated with 9 engraved plates each with tissue guard. 431 pub. cat. pp. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Tan Modern 3/4 tan calf over marbled boards. Some very light scattered foxing on initial few pages else clean and bright. Very good/No jacket issued. Oversized - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. Hurst and Blackett hardcover books
1950117672Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Final Script for the 1951 film "Call Me Mister" directed by Lloyd Bacon written for the screen by Albert E. Lewin and Burt Styler and starring Betty Grable Dan Dailey Danny Thomas and Richard Boone. With choreography by Busby Berkeley and songs by Frances Ash Earl K. Brent Sammy Fain and Mack Gordon. <br/><br/>"Call Me Mister" was based on a long-running Broadway revue with more than a little off-color humor. Fox grafted a storyline onto the revue cleaned up the dialogue and a wartime musical was born wherein Grable a singer touring USO bases runs into her old husband Dailey. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers stamped REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped project No. 314 and copy No. 5 and dated April 18 1950. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Lewin and Styler. 123 leaves mimeo rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some edge creasing and slight offsetting bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 319. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
185946469London: Longman Brown Green Longman's & Roberts and Williams And Norgate 1859. 1st Edition. Period binding black ink stain to all edges. A VG copy. Boards and edges are rubbed/scuffed some tears to the paper wrapped boards some soiling to boards and back strip some fraying to back strip blue ink inscription to ffep - possible previous signature some soiling to end papers particularly to fore-edge embossed library stamp to head of title page age toning to leaves water damage to fore-edge of leaves and boards water damage particularly bad at tail of boards and leaves -going towards middle of leaves binding a bit tender some gatherings are loose or torn but still enact overall internally clean and bright. iv 214; 2 171 1 blank; lxxii 2 blank pp. Couple illustrations at least one lithograph by Walter. Hood Fitch 1817-1892. 8-3/4" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/>Walter Fitch was a botanical illustrator from Scotland. Fitch's illustration have appeared in Curtis's Botanical Magazine most publications issued by Royal Botanical Gardens Kew George Bentham's 'Handbook of the British Flora' James Bateman's "A Monograph of Odontoglossum" and William Hooker's "A century of Orchidaceous Plants". "Fitch was made a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1857." wiki. The previous owner inscription reads "Skipper Kent 1953". Skipper Kent was a restauranteur in the San Francisco Bay Area owning Zombie Village in Oakland and Skipper Kent's in San Francisco. These "tiki" inspired restaurants were his pride and joy as he was already and avid collector of Polynesian art and artifacts. Kent was also an avid orchid collector so we suspect this was in his library at one time with his interest in botany. The embossed library stamp comes from the library of Herman Knoche 1870-1945. Knoche was born in San Jose California and studied botany at Stanford University. He moved to France to further his studies at University of Montpellier; his particular interest was island vegetation. Longman, Brown, Green, Longman's & Roberts, and Williams And Norgate hardcover books
19237326Berkeley California: James J. Gillick & Co. Publishers 1923. Octavo 20 x 13.5 cm. iv 240 pages. Various tables at end. Blank leaves at end of each section not used. Evident FIRST EDITION. The Priscilla Club of the First Congregational Church of Berkeley had been founded in April of 1921 by our editor Mrs. Joseph F. Furtado. A notice to that effect with a list of officers appears on page ii. There are no local advertisements included but there is a list of individuals and businesses that had contributed to the Church Building Fund in relation to the book. Many of the recipes are attributed. Narrow tideline throughout the text block; some light soiling. In publisher's decorated white oil clothwith an image of a young woman seated with a mixing bowl in her lap and whisk in her hand. Some rubbing to extremities and light soil otherwise very good. Ownership inscription "Mrs. L.T. Sprague Xmas 1923" to free front endpaper. Handwritten recipe "Crisco's Pie Crust" laid-in. OCLC locates eighteen copies; not in Brown. James J. Gillick & Co., Publishers 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
1744401896London: W. Innys and C. Hitch 1744. Second first London edition. Repairs to binding; title slightly soiled ink inscriptions in Greek on rear flyleaves a handsome copy/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 8vo. 174 2 pp. Near-contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards. Berkeley's most popular work espousing the myriad uses of tar water to treat everything from fevers to cancers from infant to elderly and from human to animal. "The work begins as an investigation of the medicinal virtues of tar-water and ends with a disquisition on Platonic philosophy - a blend of science and metaphysics. While in America Berkeley experimented with tar-water for many ailments including dysentery rheumatism and asthma. The treatment proved so successful that he set up an apparatus for manufacturing it" Rootenberg. Blake 43; ESTC N12567; Keynes 64; Kress 4685; Wellcome II:149. <br/><br/> W. Innys and C. Hitch hardcover books
200237722West New York NJ: Mark Batty 2002. 383 pp. <br><br>=> Signed by editor William S. Peterson. 1 of 40 copies. Includes tipped-in items in rear and a letter from the publisher laid in. Hardcover in slipcase. No dust jacket. Grey paper-covered boards. Spine faded. Near fine in a near fine. Mark Batty hardcover books
180365195New Haven: From Signey's Press for Increase Cooke & Co 1803. First American from the fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. xiii i 15-388 pp. 8vo. Contemporary sheep red morocco label. Some rubbing 2 pages advertisements at back of books available at Increase Cooke and Co. some browning and offsetting of text generally light upper corner of free endpaper removed. In a leather tipped brown cloth open end case. First American from the fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. xiii i 15-388 pp. 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; Shaw and Shoemaker 3784 From Signey's Press for Increase Cooke & Co unknown books
19035696Berkeley California: The Church; Printed by thePress of Standard Publishing Company 1903. Octavo 23.25 x 14 cm. iv 171 i pages. Advertisements. Index. Evident first edition but subsequent to an 1884 publication with different subtitle author statement and publisher. A generous church cookbook with seven hundred recipes; noteworthy among them: Squash Muffins Celery Root and Hearts of Artichoke Mussel Bordelaise Clam Patties Spanish Meat Pie Coffee Fruit Cake Lemon Cocoanut Cake Cookies with Sherry Monterey Pudding Gooseberry Pudding Pineapple Blanc-Mange Strawberry Mousse. ~ Congregationalists answered the call from President Daniel Coit Gilman 1831-1908 of the University of California to build a hall and organize a fellowship of moral vision within reach of the campus community. The "local church" emphasis of Congregationalist governance had already attracted the largest Protestant presence in San Francisco. After ten years of planning members of Berkeley First Congregational were called to new quarters by a recently cast bell on 30 September 1884 at the corner of Durant Avenue and Dana Street. Thus the early version of The Berkeley Cook Book subtitled A Collection of Choice and Tested Recipes celebrated the dedication of the 1884 church while its younger sibling of 1903 would have appeared in time to honor the building's twentieth anniversary. ~ In another twenty years they would move again to a grander brick complex on Channing Way still only a few city blocks from campus designed by the Bay Area architect Horace Gardner Simpson. It served successive generations for ninety years but in September 2016 was gutted by fire and the building's fate is undetermined as of this writing. ~ Clean and bright. Lightly wear at fore-corners and spine. Stapled in olive wrappers titled in brown. Very good. OCLC locates three copies also four copies of The Berkeley Cook Book: A Collection of Choice and Tested Recipes by the Ladies of Berkeley Oakland: Pacific Press 1884; Cook page 27; Brown 57 with different pagination; not in Cagle. [The Church; Printed by the]Press of Standard Publishing Company unknown books
1931126489London: Mundanus Ltd/Victor Gollancz Publisher 1931. Octavo printed wrappers. First edition. Berkeley's masterpiece which takes the reader into the mind of the murderer. "Iles was the innovator the father of those techniques so evident in much of today's crime fiction." - Pederson ed. St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers 4th edition. Light tanning to edges of text block slight lean some soiling to covers crease to front cover some light rubs a good to very good copy. #126489 Mundanus Ltd/Victor Gollancz Publisher unknown books
1947140197Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1947. Revised Final script for the 1948 film here under the working title "Mary O'Hara's Green Grass of Wyoming." Copy belonging to Robert Arthur who play Ken McLaughlin with his name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil and holograph pencil annotations to his scenes throughout. Laid in are three additional pages and two film negatives. <br/><br/>A mare has been lured away by a wild stallion angering the mare's owner Beaver Greenway a horse owner with a drinking problem. Meanwhile Ken McLaughlin Arthur returns home with a new horse who has developed altitude sickness. Based on the third book in Mary O'Hara's "My Friend Flicka" trilogy. Nominated for one Academy Award. <br/><br/>Set in Wyoming shot on location in Wyoming Utah and Ohio USA. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers noted as Revised Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 166 and production No. 133 dated May 16 1947. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated May 16 1947 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Martin Berkeley. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between June 25 1947 and July 18 1947. Pages Very Good with dampstaining wrapper Fair to Good complete with dampstaining pages not affected and fray at the extremities bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1970141060San Francisco: University of California Berkley Museum 1970. Original poster for one of the most important events in the Bay Area of California in 1970 a performance by Steve Reich to celebrate the opening of the UC Berkeley Art Museum. With a striking triangular design mounted as issued with a label on the verso crediting the Richell Gallery of Houston Texas for the archival framing. <br/><br/>The museum was founded in 1963 after a donation was made to the university from artist and teacher Hans Hofmann of forty-five paintings plus $250000. A competition to design the building was announced in 1964 and the museum opened in 1970. In 1966 the Pacific Film Archive was founded and began screenings in 1966. Today the museum continues to be a great success and operates under the name of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive or BAM/PFA. <br/><br/>The performance for the opening included four early works by Reich: "Four Organs" "My Name Is" "Piano Phase" and "Phase Patterns." The event marked an important moment in San Francisco Bay Area new music history with the triumphant return to the East Bay by Reich who studied at Mills College with Luciano Berio and who performed the 1964 world premiere of Terry Riley's now-legendary work "In C" at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. <br/><br/>Three sided poster each side measuring 26.3 inches mounted as issued. Unexamined out of frame no glass. Some fading and minor spotting to the recto Very Good overall. University of California Berkley Museum unknown 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
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
173226337London: J. Tonson 1732. 2 vols. 8vo pp. 14 356; 8 218; engraved vignette title-pp.; bound with as issued An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision pp. 12 215-351; several woodcuts in the text; full contemporary calf double gilt rules on covers unlettered spines in 6 compartments volume designations in 1; some moderate chipping and cracking of the spines but all in all a good and reasonably sound set. Rothschild 372 citing the first edition of the same year: "Alciphron was written in America where Berkeley had gone to await funds which never came for his projected College in the Bermudas." <br/><br/> J. Tonson unknown books
