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BERNOULLI, Jacob. Ars Conjectandi, opus posthumum. Accedit tractatus de Seriebus Infinitis, Basle, impensis Thurnisiorum fratrum, 1713, 4°, FIRST EDITION, folding plate of woodcut diagrams, 2 folding letterpress tables (lacking 2Q3-4, title with library perforation and slight tear at inner margin), 18th-century speckled calf (worn). [Horblit 12; Dibner Heralds of Science 110; PMM 179: "the first systematic attempt to place the theory of probability on a firm basis"]