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AMPÈRE (ANDRÉ MARIE): Considerations sur la Théorie du Jeu, Lyon, chez les Frères Perisse [and others], 1802, 4to, first edition, with half title (title with library blind stamp and accession no. on verso, stamps repeated at foot of D2, recto), contemporary tree calf, covers with gilt borders, flat gilt spine (shelf label at base of spine secured with adhesive tape). [Honeyman 81]

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AMPÈRE (ANDRÉ MARIE): Considerations sur la Théorie du Jeu, Lyon, chez les Frères Perisse [and others], 1802, 4to, first edition, with half title (title with library blind stamp and accession no. on verso, stamps repeated at foot of D2, recto), contemporary tree calf, covers with gilt borders, flat gilt spine (shelf label at base of spine secured with adhesive tape). [Honeyman 81]

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Born at Lyons, André Marie Ampère (1775-1836) published this small but celebrated treatise when still a young man, successfully solving a problem that had occupied Buffon, Pascal and others by demonstrating that the chances of play are decidedly against the habitual gambler.

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