A MISCELLANY, CONTAINING SEVERAL TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, BY THE BISHOP OF CLOYNE
Dublin: George Faulkner, 1752. First Dublin edition. 12mo. 265 [i.e., 262] pp. [Pages 55-58 and 77-84 are cancels, pages 85-86 omitted in numbering.] Eleven tracts, published separately 1721-1752, each with a separate title page. Includes A Proposal for the better supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity, by a College to be erected in the Summer-Islands, otherwise called the Isles of Bermuda (1725). Berkeley (1685-1753), born in Kilkenny and an Anglican bishop, served on a mission to America, living in Rhode island, 1728-1732, and afterward was named the Bishop of Cloyne (1734 to his death); his writings placed him among the important 18th-century British philosophers. Keynes Bibliography of George Berkeley 140. Contemporary calf (rubbed, some wear to joints and spine ends), leather label between raised bands on spine. Very good. Item #67002
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