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BERNOULLI, JAKOB I. Ars conjectandi, opus posthumum. Accedit tractatus de seriebus infinitis, et epistola gallice scripta de ludo pilae reticularis. Basel: Thurneisen Brothers 1713.
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BERNOULLI, JAKOB I. Ars conjectandi, opus posthumum. Accedit tractatus de seriebus infinitis, et epistola gallice scripta de ludo pilae reticularis. Basel: Thurneisen Brothers 1713.
Small 4to, 188 x 151mm. (7 3/8 x 5 15/16in.), late eighteenth-century tan paper boards, gilt lettered paper spine label; spine, board edges and corners worn, some leaves slightly browned. Brown morocco box by Lobstein-Laurenchet.
FIRST EDITION, 2 folding letterpress tables, 1 folding diagrammatical woodcut table.
Dibner Heralds of Science 110; Grolier/Horblit 12; Norman 216; PMM 179.
"Jakob I Bernoulli's posthumous treatise, edited by his nephew (the title literally means 'the art of [dice] throwing') was the first significant book on probability theory..."--Norman.
Provenance: Joan. Christophe Seide, eighteenth-century signature on title -- Realschule in Brünn, late eighteenth-century ink stamp on title, two later inkstamps (mid nineteenth-century) of the secularized library.
Small 4to, 188 x 151mm. (7 3/8 x 5 15/16in.), late eighteenth-century tan paper boards, gilt lettered paper spine label; spine, board edges and corners worn, some leaves slightly browned. Brown morocco box by Lobstein-Laurenchet.
FIRST EDITION, 2 folding letterpress tables, 1 folding diagrammatical woodcut table.
Dibner Heralds of Science 110; Grolier/Horblit 12; Norman 216; PMM 179.
"Jakob I Bernoulli's posthumous treatise, edited by his nephew (the title literally means 'the art of [dice] throwing') was the first significant book on probability theory..."--Norman.
Provenance: Joan. Christophe Seide, eighteenth-century signature on title -- Realschule in Brünn, late eighteenth-century ink stamp on title, two later inkstamps (mid nineteenth-century) of the secularized library.