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1732000010926London: J. Tonson 1732. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. 8vo. 13 2-350 2; 9 2-358 2 pp. Full sheep ca. 1800 with twin gold borders on each board spines in six compartments with later red and green morocco labels lettered and bordered in gold on each spine; all edges decoratively sprinkled. Bound with a later edition of Berkeley's Theory of Vision. Illustrated with two small woodcuts on the title pages and several wood-cut initials head and tailpieces. The Theory of Vision contains a few in-text diagrams. Contains one of the mispaginations in volume II but not the other. Honderich 89. Jessop 16a. Keynes 15. Mead 10. Written in colonial America Berkeley's Alciphron is a vigorous defense of Christianity against the atheists deists and skeptics of his day. It elicited several responses from other theologians and would help Berkeley shape his later views concerning philosophy of language. According to Honderich "Berkeley is a most striking and even unique phenomenon in the history of philosophy. There have been many philosophers who have constructed bold and sweeping . metaphysical systems . have been devoted to the clarification and defence of 'common sense' . some have made it their chief concern to defend religious faith and doctrine against their perceived enemies. It is the peculiar achievement of Berkeley that with high virtuosity and skill he contrived to present himself in all these roles at once" Honderich 89. The volumes rebacked in later sheep the reverse of the front flyleaf of volume one has a pre-20th century inscription citing a 1746 publication each title page has a pre-20th century name in its margin. J. Tonson hardcover
1767158145London: Printed by assignment from the executors of the late Mr. Tonson for J. Beecroft 1767. Stated fourth edition though in fact a re-issue of the third edition sheets of 1752 with a cancel title page. In Alciphron first published in 1732 Berkeley rebuts the insurgent secular intellectual trends of the early Enlightenment. Countering the views of Locke Mandeville and the third Earl of Shaftesbury who collectively manifest as the conceited free thinkers Lysicles and Alciphron Berkeley defends traditional Christianity and his own idealist epistemology. Octavo 206 x 129 mm. Nineteenth-century half calf green calf label marbled sides sprinkled edges. 19th-century bookplate of one Daniel Frazer to front pastedown. A little rubbed small chip at foot of rear joint binding firm scattered light foxing else clean slight paper fault to A8 not affecting text; a very good copy. ESTC N15774; Keynes 25; Jessop 169. unknown
173200008013London: J. Tonson 1732. Second edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 2 vol. 8vo. 15 2-356 4; 9 2-351 3 pp. Recent half brown calf over marbled paper boards spine in six compartments with gold lettering and gold rules; brown topstain and red speckled fore-edge and bottom edge. Recent endpapers and pastedowns. Volume 1 missing the A4 blank the blank leaf called for between the errata and the contents has been excised otherwise both volumes collate complete. Keynes A17. A handsome set of two of Berkeley's principal works. Bindings are about Fine contents Very Good or better leaves very clean with occasional light wear Volume 1: bottom corner of L1 missing; Volume 2: the first three or so gatherings show minor loss at the front gutter. J. Tonson hardcover
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. J. Tonson unknown
175515970Dublin: Thomas Watson 1755. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Thomas Watson1755. Leather binding. Front board missing back board partially detached 1/3 loss on spine. 370 pages 2 pages of advertisement 7 page table of contents. Pages are clean and unmarked moderately foxed throughout. Good reading/research copy. Thomas Watson hardcover
17322329641London: Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand 1732. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Second edition. Neatly rebacked with new gilt titles original boards and endsheets retained. Discolored 2 inch declivity on front board boards rubbed with corners exposed first volume lacks leaf A4 ink owner stamps on front endpapers William Harris Mar 1944 light stain to marginal edges of first gathering in volume two front and end matter lightly foxed rear free endpaper of first volume loosening. 1732 Full-Leather. 356; 351 pp. Alciphron is a Christian apologetic in answer to the 'minute philosophers' of Berkeley's day who sought to minimize the the dignity of man. Berkeley is known as an advocate of subjective idealism which he called immaterialism which states that objects do not exist unless they are perceived. "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge 1710 is the classic exposition of his philosophy of immaterialism as an antidote to infidelity prefaced with an influential essay in the philosophy of language; part two was later lost in manuscript with other papers in Italy." - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Perhaps his most well-known work is Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous in which two characters representing himself and John Locke discuss various philosophical questions. Berkeley was a fellow at Trinity College and in the 1720s turned his attention to the project of opening St. Paul's College in Bermuda though skepticism about the chances of success in this endeavor caused the funding to come into question. "To prevent a threatening decline in private support Berkeley sailed for Newport Rhode Island with a small advance party on 6 September 1728; this included Smibert who painted several well-known portraits of Berkeley and of his party before settling for life in Boston. The journey was hazardous and protracted. They made an unscheduled landfall on the Virginia coast about the turn of the year and were officially received at Williamsburg before reaching Rhode Island on 23 January 1729. By the spring Berkeley had bought a farm of 96 acres at Middletown 'with two fine groves and winding rivulet upon it' Works 8.194 whose produce would support the college. He employed slaves and was apparently indifferent to the institution of slavery provided that it was humane seeing the moral need rather as one of conversion and baptism. He built a new house Whitehall which is now maintained as a historic site although the adjoining farmland has given way to urban development. Berkeley often preached at Newport Rhode Island in the winter and in remoter outposts in the summer. The strongest and longest friendship he established among New England churchmen was with Samuel Johnson 1696 - 1772 of Stratford Connecticut a refugee from Calvinism who later became first president of King's College New York later Columbia University and lent support to Berkeley's philosophy through his Elementa philosophica 1752 and other writings. Throughout his career Berkeley had little time for dissenters although he abhorred the use of violence against them. The religious tolerance characteristic of Rhode Island induced a degree of ecumenicism in his social practice that was not always maintained in the pulpit. Reports of growing infidelity in English society to which he was always liable to give credence were fuelled by the continuing bad faith of the government in failing to lodge the funds he considered legally his. This was a factor in his writing Alciphron a set of dialogues located notionally in England but drawing much of the landscape description from Rhode Island which was to sell well and stimulate controversy after his return. In this theist and immaterialist combine their defences against a medley of intellectual trends derived primarily but not exclusively from Locke Bernard Mandeville and the third earl of Shaftesbury that Berkeley regarded as obstructive to religion. The work includes Berkeley's second foray into moral philosophy." - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand hardcover
1710171378Dublin: printed by Aaron Rhames for Jeremy Pepyat 1710. A cornerstone of 18th-century philosophy First edition of the author's major work "the classic exposition of Berkeley's philosophy of immaterialism as an antidote to infidelity" ODNB in which he famously puts forward the idea that "no object can exist without a mind to conceive it". Part Two of the work was lost while still in manuscript form. Although Berkeley's works did not initially prompt much reaction they came to have a profound effect on the intellectual life of the later 18th century. The Treatise "set out his idealistic philosophy in detail arguing that the concept of 'material substance' is at once absurd and explanatorily useless. He pointed out that even philosophers who posit the existence of material bodies cannot explain how matter can produce ideas in the mind or how purely mental phenomena like ideas could resemble or correspond to non-mental material substances. Perhaps his most shocking claim in favour of his metaphysics was his oft-repeated contention that his principles were in strict accord with common sense and inimical to skepticism" Grattan-Guinness p. 122. Octavo 205 x 128 mm. Complete with the final blank 2E4. Rebound to style in full panelled calf red morocco spine label raised bands and spine ends ruled and tooled in blind. Ink ownership signature of one Thomas Lloyd on title page and p. i upper margin of the former excised not affecting lettering but shaving the printed rules. Contents browned and occasionally spotted title leaf chipped at lower outer corner a few ink marginal marks crosses lines small tear at upper outer corner of 2B4. Overall a very good copy. Keynes Berkeley 5; Norman 196; Printing and the Mind of Man 176. Ivor Grattan-Guinness Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940 2005. hardcover
1725371588London: H. Woodfall 1725. 24pp. 8vo. Nineteenth century half red morocco and marbled boards minor wear. Numerical stamp on verso of title bookplate. 24pp. 8vo. Proposes the creation of a college in Bermuda for training young American Indians to serve as missionaries throughout the British colonies. First published the year prior. Scarce. ESTC T14337; Sabin 4878 H. Woodfall unknown
1752284380London: J. & R. Tonson 1752. First. hardcover. very good. 8vo contemporary calf with leather spine label. London: J. &. R. Tonson and S. Draper 1752. First Edition<br/><br/> The book contains 11 tracts each with a separate title page & date but only one continuous pagination. The subjects include Thoughts on Tar-water Proposal for converting the Savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be erected.in Bermuda Exhortation to the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland Discourse to Magistrates etc.<br/><br/> J. & R. Tonson unknown books
1752268<b>J. & </b><b>R. Tonson and S. Draper 1752. Title page iii-vi 2 9-268 all collated. Full calf. Spine with raised bands. Covers have gold frames. All joints and hinges slightly worn and/or cracked but covers holding well by strings. Some brown stains to edges of endpapers and first and last few leaves. The spine is darkened but a nice uncomplicated copy overall with a refreshed label. </b> J. & R. Tonson hardcover
1750175832London: for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper 1750. Presented to and initialled by the Enlightenment thinker George Berkeley First edition presentation copy to the idealist philosopher George Berkeley inscribed by the Countess of Burlington on the initial binder's blank "To the Bishop of Cloyne from his most humble servant D. Burlington" and with Berkeley's ownership initials George Cloyne to the title page. Dorothy Countess of Burlington 1699-1758 was the granddaughter of Halifax a leading statesman of Charles II's time. She owned several manuscripts from Halifax which were edited here for publication by Alexander Pope. She was one of Queen Caroline's Ladies of the Bedchamber a patron of artists including David Garrick and Handel and a portrait painter. Berkeley was first introduced to her husband by Alexander Pope and he became close friends with them. Berkeley wrote to the Countess to thank her for the volume: "Madam Permit me to thank your Ladyship for a present very valuable in it self and much more so on account of the giver who is so good as to remember an humble servant in this remote corner; where to my sorrow I am haunted with a taste for good company and fine arts that I got at Burlington house the worst preparative in the world for a retreat at Cloyne" 2 April 1750. The volume came into the possession of the bookseller and bibliographer John Stephens 1948-2006 and has his bookplate. Stephens identified the letter and sourced a photocopy from Chatsworth House which had the original the photocopy is included as is a letter from Chatsworth sending it. He published an article on the volume and its presentation "Berkeley and Lady Burlington: A Footnote" in Berkeley Newsletter Number 12 1992 pp. 16-17. He quoted the letter and commented: "It is a rather sad letter: he may then have been depressed but worse was to happen. In February 1751 his son William died and the following October his friend Thomas Prior followed. The next year he sailed for England never to return to Ireland. Berkeley shared Burlington's interest in architecture but he had certainly not been in Burlington House since he had last been in London in 1734. It has very much the tone of someone pleasantly surprised that he should be remembered after so long an absence". Octavo 199 x 120 mm pp. 8 183 1. Contemporary mottled calf rebacked with black morocco label later double gilt rule to covers marbled endpapers red speckled edges. Bookplate to front pastedown of British modernist architect Marshall Sisson 1897-1978 alongside his pencilled signature and notes on the book on the front free endpaper verso. Covers a little worn with patches of calf infill superficial split to front inner hinge some light foxing to contents still a very good copy. ESTC T130907. unknown
1732BTETM0001889London: J. Tonson 1732. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo Standard 8vo 6 נ9 in 152 נ229 mm . Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Boards rubbed and bumped; text block and binding firm and strong. A lovely copy. Collation: pp. 707 Please see Photos as part of condition report. 1732 2nd Edition With Provenance ALCIPHRON Or The Minute Philosopher in Seven Dialogues By George Berkeley Author Bio: George Berkeley 12 March 1685 14 January 1753 known as Bishop Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others. This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are ideas perceived by the mind and as a result cannot exist without being perceived. Berkeley is also known for his critique of abstraction an important premise in his argument for immaterialism. Synopsis: 1732 ALICIPHRON: OR THE MINUTE PHILOSOPHER in Seven Dialogues containing an Apology for the Christian Religion against those who are called free-thinkers Two volumes - complete set 356 pp & 351 pp - Title pages with engravings various ornamental engravings at end of chapters and end of volume. Printed for J. Tonson in the strand 1732 By George Berkeley Book plate for The Right Honourable The Earl of Portsmouth in FEP Earl of Portsmouth is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1743 for John Wallop 1st Viscount Lymington who had previously represented Hampshire in the House of Commons.Previous owner inscription on FEP. Format: Hardcover Octavo Standard 8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary. Language: English Published By: J. Tonson London Condition Report: Dust Jacket: No Jacket Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Very Good - Boards rubbed and bumped; text block and binding firm and strong. A lovely copy. Collation: pp. 707 Please see Photos as part of condition report. SKU: BTETM0001889 Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5 L: 30 W: 25 Units: cm W: 2Kg Tracked Shipping Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request J. Tonson hardcover
