Right Rev George Berkeley (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. FRONT BOARD IS LOOSE WITH SCUFFS AND SMALL HOLE ON PAGE 1 AND 2 AND FOXING.

New edition. Ownership signature "Frances Marshall" to verso of first blank, pencil shelf-mark from library at Ham Spray House. In a contemporary hand on both sides of second blank are written short passages about tar water. Original paper-covered boards - fragile, spine chipped, an unsophisticated copy in good condition.

Full Leather. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. FIRST EDITION/LONDON PRINTING of this philosophical work by Berkeley (here spelled Berkley) DOES NOT FEATURE SIRIS IN TITLE, PREDATES IT. Extremely rare, scarce. Title page: "By the Right Rev. Dr. George Berkley, lord Bishop of Cloyne, and Author of The Minute Philosopher. "As we have opportunity, let us do good unto all men. Gal. vi. 10. Hoc opus, hoc studium parvi properemus et ampli. Hor." LONDON, printed for C. Hitch in Pater-noster-row; and C. Davis, against Gray's Inn, Holboutn MDCCXLIV [price two shillings]. CONDITION: Front board is COMPLETELY MISSING. obvious shelf-wear for a book almost 300 years old, all pages present, a few pencil markings on title page, back board/spine still bound in leather, marbled back board. Formerly from Harvard library, though with no library markings (info paper included with book) Please email for any information.

8vo, 174, [2]pp; later morocco and marbled boards. De-accessioned from the American Antiquarian Society, with the AAS stamp on the title page and initials on the spine. Among Bishop Berkeley's last works, this series of "reflexions" touts the medieval remedy of tar-water, made from pine tar steeped in cold water, for prevention of all manner of ailments from digestive disorders and kidney stones to scurvy, distemper, smallpox and other illnesses. Wear to a small portion of the upper corners of the first fifty-four pages, as if nibbled by a small rodent, (less offensive than it sounds); a short marginal tear and library stamp to title page; small, neat, marginal notations; small abrasion to the front endpaper; joints and edges rubbed.

Condition: V.G. Lord Bishop of Cloyne and author of The Minute Philosopher. 1744. p.p. 174-2. Siris Bound with Armstrong, John. The Art of preserving Health: A Poem. London. Miller 1745. p.p. 128. Contemporary calf.