2 volumes. [12], 350; [8], 358 pp. Engraved title-page vignettes. (8vo) 19.3x12 cm (7½x4¾"), period gilt-ruled speckled calf (with Volume I rebacked but retaining original spine strip), spines numbered and lettered in gilt. First Edition. Early work on free thought. Also includes "An essay towards a new theory of vision, first published in the year MDCCIX", with separate title-page, in Vol. II, pp. [211]-358. In Alciphron George Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne, brings his earlier philosophical writings up-to-date with his perspective of having spent several years in the British colonies in North America, and in dialogue form created one of the most important works of Christian apologetics written in the 18th century. In the second dialogue he also lampoons Bernard Mandeville and his famous dialogue in Fable of the Bees, to which Mandeville responded, castigating Berkeley for misinterpreting his writings. ESTC T86056; Rothschild 374; NCBEL II, 1852.
2 volumes. [12], 350; [8], 358 pp. Engraved title-page vignettes. (8vo) 19.3x12 cm (7½x4¾"), period gilt-ruled speckled calf (with Volume I rebacked but retaining original spine strip), spines numbered and lettered in gilt. First Edition. Early work on free thought. Also includes "An essay towards a new theory of vision, first published in the year MDCCIX", with separate title-page, in Vol. II, pp. [211]-358. In Alciphron George Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne, brings his earlier philosophical writings up-to-date with his perspective of having spent several years in the British colonies in North America, and in dialogue form created one of the most important works of Christian apologetics written in the 18th century. In the second dialogue he also lampoons Bernard Mandeville and his famous dialogue in Fable of the Bees, to which Mandeville responded, castigating Berkeley for misinterpreting his writings. ESTC T86056; Rothschild 374; NCBEL II, 1852.
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