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May. 23, 2024
Berkeley (George) A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Part I [all published], first edition, Dublin, by Aaron Rhames, for Jeremy Pepyat, 1710.
Est: £5,000 - £7,000
Berkeley (George) A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Part I [all published], first edition, title within double rule border with faint pencil signature of Baker at head, ink signature of L.G.Baker to head of p.51 and two manuscript alterations/additions to p.61, lacking final blank leaf, rather soiled and stained, G2 & 3 a little frayed at lower edge, K1 lacking upper outer corner with slight loss to pagination, later half dark blue roan, spine gilt, rubbed, corners a little worn, [Keynes 5; PMM 176], 8vo, Dublin, by Aaron Rhames, for Jeremy Pepyat, 1710. *** Rare. Berkeley's most important philosophical work, in which he "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". (PMM). The manuscript alterations/additions to p.61 are as follows: line 11 "should" is altered to "might" and in line 14 "without the help of external Bodies" is inserted after "Intelligence", the whole reading, "Suppose, what no one can deny possible, an Intelligence without the help of external Bodies to be affected with the same train of Sensations or Ideas that you are, imprinted in the same order and with like vividness in his Mind."
Forum Auctions - UK
Dec. 01, 2022
Mathematics.- [Berkeley (George)] The Analyst; or, a discourse addressed to an infidel mathematician, second edition, Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, 1754; and a first â¦
Est: £600 - £800
Mathematics.- [Berkeley (George, Bishop of Cloyne)] The Analyst; or, a discourse addressed to an infidel mathematician, second edition, woodcut diagrams, final advertisement f., G1v & G2r with small brown square of offsetting from previously inserted item (text perfectly legible), Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, 1754 bound with [Berkeley (George, Bishop of Cloyne)] A Miscellany, containing several tracts on various subjects, first English edition, family presentation copy, woodcut tail-pieces, [Keynes 141; Goldsmiths' 8683; Rothschild 383; Sabin 4877], Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, 1752, together 2 works in 1 vol., later grey and brown pencil marginalia and marking of text, some spotting and light staining, burgundy leather spine label loosely inserted, contemporary calf, gilt, covers with wide floral borders, spine in compartments and with garland and stylised floral decoration, joints split, but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo ⁂ I: Berkeley's important satire on 'free-thinking', and in particular the Astronomer Royal Sir Edmund Halley. It attacks the foundations of mathematics with the same ferocity as the author felt religious truths were attacked by 'free-thinkers'. He claimed to uncover numerous gaps in proof, attacked the use of infinitesimals, the diagonal of the unit square, and the very existence of numbers. The overall aim was not so much to mock mathematics or mathematicians, but rather to show that mathematicians, like Christians, relied upon incomprehensible 'mysteries' in the foundations of their reasoning. II: Includes 'Prospect of planting Arts and Learning in America'; 'A Proposal for Better Supplying Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for converting the Savage Americans to Christianity'; 'De motu' (against Newton); and 'Farther Thoughts on Tar-Water'; Provenance: 'The gift of Jos: Berkeley Esq. to El: Berkeley ?1768. The gift of El: Berkeley to her dear son..' (ink inscription to head of title of Miscellany).
Forum Auctions - UK
Mar. 31, 2020
Berkeley (George)
Est: £200 - £300
Berkeley (George) Saggio d'una nuova teoria sopra la visione, FIRST and ONLY EDITION, woodcut printer’s device to title, illistrations in text, a little staining or dust soiling in places, contemporary vellum boards, spotted, 8vo, Francesco Storti, Venice , 1732. *** Scarce Italian translation of one of George Berkeley’s scientific works. Berkeley was one of the three most famous British Empiricists. He’s best known for his early works on vision (‘An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision’, 1709) and metaphysics (‘A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge’, 1710; ‘Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous’, 1713). Berkeley’s empirical theory of vision challenged the then-standard account of distance vision, based on geometrical calculations. His alternative account focuses on visual and tactual objects.
Chiswick Auctions
Jul. 15, 2015
BERKELEY, George (1685-1753). A Treatise concerning the Principle
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
BERKELEY, George (1685-1753). A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human
Christie's
Apr. 13, 2015
BERKELEY, GEORGE. 1685-1753. A Treatise Concerning the Principle
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BERKELEY, GEORGE. 1685-1753. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge ... To which are added Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, in Opposition to Skepticks and Atheists. London: Jacob Tonson, 1734.
Bonhams
Oct. 16, 2013
BERKELEY, GEORGE. 1685-1753. The Works of George Berkeley D.D. Late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. London: G. Robinson. Dublin: John Exshaw, 1784.
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BERKELEY, GEORGE. 1685-1753. The Works of George Berkeley D.D. Late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. London: G. Robinson. Dublin: John Exshaw, 1784.
Bonhams
Oct. 20, 2012
BERKELEY ( George )
Est: €100 - €150
BERKELEY ( George ). The medicinal virtues of tar water fully explained … To which is added, the receipt for making it, and instructions to know by the colour and taste of the water when the tar is good, and of the right sort. Together with a plain explanation of the Bishop's physical terms. Digested for the benefit of all who drink it, and those who make it themselves. [London :] Dublin printed, London reprinted, for the proprietors of the Tar-Water Warehouse, behind the Thatch'd-House-Tavern, in St. James's-Street ; and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-row, 1744 FIRST EDITION UNDER THIS TITLE, 32-pages, 8vo, recent wrapper : a very good copy. "This account of tar-water is taken from Siris, though with many adjustments. No Dublin edition has yet been found. All the addresses are in London, and the 'reprinting' may refer only to the original edition of Siris, from which this is taken." - Keynes 69. Jessop 147. ENGLISH PRE 1801; ENGLISH LITERATURE; MEDICINE; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Whyte's
Oct. 20, 2012
[BERKELEY ( George )]
Est: €120 - €160
[BERKELEY ( George )]. A letter to T----- P---- [Thomas Prior], Esq ; From the auth or of Siris. Containing some farther remarks on the virtues of tar-water, and the methods for preparing and using of it. To which is added, an answer to a supposed physician's letter to the right reverend the Bishop of Cloyne, occasioned by his lordship's treatise on the virtues of tar-water. [London :] Dublin printed, London re-printed, for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noster-row, 1744 FIRST LONDON EDITION, pp (4), 28, with half-title, 8vo, recent wrapper : very good. A variant issue of the first London edition of Berkeley's first of three published letters to Thomas Prior, his long and close friend. ESTC locates only two copies of this issue : CaQMMO and DNLM, in which the Latin motto 'Non sibi, sed toti' is immediately above the imprint : an issue not included in Keynes or Jessop nor found on-line in either D or Dt. "The text is earlier than that of the lst Dubl. Ed., perhaps because B. being in Ireland, could not send last-minute changes to the London printer." - Jessop 183b. ENGLISH PRE 1801; ENGLISH LITERATURE; MEDICINE; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Whyte's
Jul. 15, 2010
BERKELEY, GEORGE.
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
BERKELEY, GEORGE. THREE DIALOGUES BETWEEN HYLAS AND PHILONUS. G. JAMES FOR HENRY CLEMENTS, 1713 8vo (197 x 112mm.), first edition, contemporary speckled calf gilt, some passages underlined in a near contemporary hand, a few short tears, tears to B6, C8, D8, F8 affecting a few words, minor worming to margin at end, joints partially cracked, wear to edges of binding rare. Many contemporary readers had found Berkeley's classic exposition of his immaterialist doctrine in A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) to be strange and unpalatable, so the philosopher recast his thinking in more popular form as a series of dialogues, to elaborate on his notions and "to place them in a new light".
Sotheby's
Jun. 17, 2008
[BERKELEY, George (1685-1753)]. The Analyst; or, a Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician . London; J. Tonson, 1734.
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
[BERKELEY, George (1685-1753)]. The Analyst; or, a Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician. London; J. Tonson, 1734. 8o (198 x 122 mm). Errata on verso of last leaf. Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: a few early ink annotations in text; Edward Neville da Costa Andrade (1887-1971), physicist and member of the Royal Society (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Berkeley's critique of Newton's theory of fluxions and the principles of calculus. Courting controversy with this work, Berkeley claims that the notion of infintesimals in calculus are contradictory and therefore these new ideas of mathematics are less intellectually secure than theology. The "Infidel Mathematician" in the title is thought to be Edmund Halley. Keynes 32.
Christie's
Jul. 12, 2007
Berkeley, George. , A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Dublin: Aaron Rhames, 1710
Est: £7,000 - £10,000
8vo, first edition , contemporary calf tooled in bind, the leaves generally browned, binding rebacked, upper right corner of cover scorched, also affecting the same corner of the text block
Sotheby's
Jun. 02, 2004
BERKELEY, George (1685-1753). The Analyst; or, A Discourse addressed to an Infidel
Est: £2,500 - £3,500
BERKELEY, George (1685-1753). The Analyst; or, A Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician. London: J. Tonson, 1734. With final errata leaf. (Title browned at margins.) [Bound with:] [James JURIN (1684-1750)]. Geometry No Friend to Infidelity; or, A Defence of Sir Issac Newton and the British Mathematicians in a letter to the author of the Analyst... by Philalethes Cantabrigiensis. London: T. Cooper, 1734. Annotations on C1r and L3r. [and:] G. BERKLEY. A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics in answer to a pamphlet of Philalethes Cantabrigiensis. London: J. Tonson, 1735. (Some light browning.) [and:] [J. JURIN]. The Minute Mathematician: or, The Free-Thinker no Just-Thinker, set forth in a second letter to the author of the Analyst... by Philalethes Cantabrigiensis. London: T. Cooper, 1735. (Headline and first line of A3 affected by paper fault and with laminated repair on verso, later quires waterstained at lower margin.) 4 works in one volume, 8° (194 x 114mm). Contemporary calf, speckled edges (rebacked, old spine preserved, endpapers renewed, front inner hinges strengthened but split). FIRST EDITIONS. A.A. Luce, author of the Life of Berkeley, called the Analyst 'in part a criticism of Newton's doctrine of Fluxions, and in part an argument ad hominem for Christianity.' The 'Infidel Mathematician' was probably Edmund Halley who had become notorious by convincing Dr. Samuel Garth to renounce Christianity on his deathbed. Jurin's reply to Berkeley, on behalf of the Newtonians, 'started a controversy among mathematicians which lasted for many years and is still remembered.' Keynes George Berkeley 32, 35, 36 and 38. BERKELEY, G. Alciphron: or, The Minute Philosopher [with An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision]. London: J. Tonson, 1732. 2 volumes, 8° (195 x 117mm). Engraved title vignettes, woodcut diagrams. Final blank at end of each volume. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, red speckled edges (joints split, spines slightly frayed at head and foot, a few scuff marks to covers, corners bumped). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY (title to vol. I inscribed at head: 'Given by the Author'; small textual corrections to E4v, E5v and F6v of vol. I), possibly to: -- A. Warriner (ownership inscription in both vols.) -- Walter Long (19th-century bookplate). FIRST EDITION of the Alciphron dialogues, 'regarded as an oustanding example of English literature among works on philosophy,' which were written in Newport, Rhode Island, 1729-31, and published in Tonson's handsome edition early in 1732. The two engraved vignettes show 'the Fountain of Living Waters' and 'The Balances of Deceit.' Keynes George Berkeley 15; Rothschild 374. BERKELEY, G. A Miscellany containing several tracts on various subjects. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1752. 8° (200 x 120mm). Contemporary calf with morocco lettering-piece (joints cracked, corners rubbed, lettering-piece slightly damaged). Provenance: Goodmay (signature on title). FIRST LONDON EDITION, following the Dublin edition of the same year. The Miscellany contained the first printing of a revised version of 'Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America,' and the first printing of 'Farther Thoughts on Tar-Water,' Berkeley's final word on the subject. Keynes George Berkeley 141. (4)
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