BERKELEY, George (1685-1753). An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision . Dublin: Aaron Rhames for Jeremy Pepyat, 1709. 4° (190 x 120mm). Diagrams in text. (Tear along edge of text block in D4, final blank verso lightly soiled). Later half polished calf, over marbled-paper boards, red leather sp ine label (some wear at spine). Provenance : Edward Edmunds (inscriptions, dated 1840, on title-page and front pastedown); E.H.W. Meyerstein (Berkeley scholar; bookplate, engraved 1911). Berkeley's first major scientific work, published while he was still at Trinity College, Dublin. 'The most significant contribution to psychology produced in the eighteenth century' ( Brett's History of Psychology , ed. R.S. Peters, 1953, p.409), in which Berkeley develops his theory that visual ideas are in the mind. The book is very rare on the market, only two copies having come to auction in the last twenty years. Keynes 1. Laid in is an AUTOGRAPH FRAGMENT BY THOMAS CARLYLE of 11 lines, beginning 'Merlin's wood is near Lamorna in Cornwall. We resolved, two friends and I, one July afternoon, to give ourselves up to its influence...' (with corrections).
BERKELEY, George (1685-1753). An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision . Dublin: Aaron Rhames for Jeremy Pepyat, 1709. 4° (190 x 120mm). Diagrams in text. (Tear along edge of text block in D4, final blank verso lightly soiled). Later half polished calf, over marbled-paper boards, red leather sp ine label (some wear at spine). Provenance : Edward Edmunds (inscriptions, dated 1840, on title-page and front pastedown); E.H.W. Meyerstein (Berkeley scholar; bookplate, engraved 1911). Berkeley's first major scientific work, published while he was still at Trinity College, Dublin. 'The most significant contribution to psychology produced in the eighteenth century' ( Brett's History of Psychology , ed. R.S. Peters, 1953, p.409), in which Berkeley develops his theory that visual ideas are in the mind. The book is very rare on the market, only two copies having come to auction in the last twenty years. Keynes 1. Laid in is an AUTOGRAPH FRAGMENT BY THOMAS CARLYLE of 11 lines, beginning 'Merlin's wood is near Lamorna in Cornwall. We resolved, two friends and I, one July afternoon, to give ourselves up to its influence...' (with corrections).
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