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BERKELEY (George): - Hales (Stephen), FRS.
An
account of some experiments and observations on tar-water:
wherein is shown the quantity of tar that is therein. And also a
method proposed, both to abate that quantity considerably, and
to ascertain the strength of the tar-water. Which was read before
the Royal Society.
Printed for R. Manby and H. S. Cox,
1745
FIRST EDITION, with 2 woodcut illustrations, pages (2), 29,
(1, adverts), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
“This is a serious attempt by the distinguished author of Vegetable
Staticks, 1727, and other works, to establish by scientific methods the
quantity of tar extracts taken by the people using tar-water. “ - Keynes
91.
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
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BERKELEY (George): - Philanthropos.
The Bishop of
Cloyne defended; or, tar-water proved useful, by theory and
experiments. In answer to T. R. M. D. [Thomas Reeve], author
of Epidemical Madness cured. By Philanthropos.
Printed for J.
Rivington
[1744]
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages (4), 26, complete with the
half-title, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Keynes 88. The identity of Philanthropos remains unknown.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
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BERKELEY (George).
A chain of philosophical
reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of Tar Water,
and divers other subjects connected together and arising one
from another. The second edition, improved and corrected by
the author. 1744
a very good copy.
The second London edition, with the first appearance of the contents
leaf. The tag “the cup that cheers but not inebriates”, made current by
Cowper with reference to tea comes from ‘Siris’, where it refers to tar-
water. The book passes, discursively but in beautiful writing, from tar-
water through botany, iatrochemistry, and cosmology, to a survey of
ancient philosophies and theosophies. The general principle is that under
God ‘there runs a chain [in Greek, seiris] throughout the whole system
of beings’. 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.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
NARY (Cornelius).
A letter to His
Grace Edward Lord Bishop of Tuam. An answer to his
charitable address. To all who are of the communion of the
Church of Rome.
Dublin: Printed in the year
1728. FIRST
(ONLY) EDITON, pages 235, (1), 8vo, recent boards, with
label: signs of use, the title-leaf repaired in margins: a good,
sound copy.
Nary (1658–1738), RC priest, religious controversialist, the most
considerable Catholic figure in Ireland in the first half of the 18C. He
enjoyed a degree of immunity which he fully exploited in dangerous
times, while his outstanding honesty, integrity, and great learning
earned him the esteem of many protestants as well as Catholics. He was
essentially what was known in later times as a ‘Castle Catholic’ (that is,
Dublin Castle). More than once he protested his loyalty to the crown
and his admiration for the British constitution, although he fell short of
abjuring the Pretender. This accounts for the considerable latitude he
was allowed in his writings, in which he was often measuredly defiant,
sometimes abusive, of church and state(ODNB).
(2)
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
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[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.
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
560
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BERKELEY (George).
A Miscellany, containing several
tracts on various subjects.
Dublin: Printed by George Faulkner,
1752
FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 80, 55(bis) - 58 (second state of
leaves C4-5), 81 - 84, (2), 89 - 264, complete with the rarely
found leaf of contents, 12mo, contemporary calf, old rebacking,
with label, gilt: a very good copy.
The second state of the first edition, with the rarely found independent
leaf of contents following the title-page.. Notable for containing the first
printing of `Farther Thoughts on Tar-Water’ and a revised version of
`Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America’
which, of course, contains the memorable line “Westward the Course of
Empire takes its Way”. “Variant: a paragraph beginning ‘Licentious
habits of youth’ added on p. 58 of the reprinted pp. 55-58; footnotes
referring to ’Alciphron’ on pp. 69 and 70 omitted on the reprinted leaf;
and two paragraphs beginning ‘The constitution of these kingdoms’ and
‘The magistrates, perhaps’ omitted from pp. 77-79 together with two
footnotes lettered ‘h’ and ‘i’ resulting in a reprint of a shortened text on
four leaves and the excision of pp. 85-[86]. An extra leaf ’Table of
contents’ was inserted in some copies after the titlepage. “ - ESTC.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
561
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BERKELEY (George).
Siris: A chain of philosophical
reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of Tar Water,
and divers other subjects connected together and arising one
from another. The second edition, improved and corrected by
the author.
Dublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, and C.
Hitch and C. Davis,
1744
SECOND LONDON EDITION, pp 174, (2), 8vo, recent paper
boards: a very good copy.
The second London edition, with the first appearance of the contents
leaf. The tag “the cup that cheers but not inebriates”, made current by
Cowper with reference to tea comes from ‘Siris’, where it refers to tar-
water. The book passes, discursively but in beautiful writing, from tar-
water through botany, iatrochemistry, and cosmology, to a survey of
ancient philosophies and theosophies. The general principle is that under
God ‘there runs a chain [in Greek, seiris] throughout the whole system
of beings’. 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.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
CHURCHILL (Sarah), Duchess
of Marlborough.
An account of the conduct of the dowager
Dutchess of Marlborough, from her first coming to court, to the
year 1710. In a letter from herself to my lord —-
Dublin: Printed
by A. Reilly; for G. Ewing, at the Angle [sic] and Bible in Dame-Street,
1742. FIRST IRISH EDITION(?), 160-pages, 12mo,
contemporary calf, wanting label: with some light browing and
staining but a very good copy.
Of this edition ESTC locates copies at L, Cku, Dk, O, Di, Dt(2) and
only the NIC copy in USA. No full stop at end of title. Written with the
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