Lot 143
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HODGSON, James (1672-1755). The Valuation of Annuities upon Lives deduced from the London Bills of Mortality, London: J. Hinton, 1747. 4° (210 x 156mm). (Margins browned, some leaves slightly cropped), limp morocco c. 1900 (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Institute of Actuaries (bookplate; 'given to the Equitable Life in March 1949').
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HODGSON, James (1672-1755). The Valuation of Annuities upon Lives deduced from the London Bills of Mortality, London: J. Hinton, 1747. 4° (210 x 156mm). (Margins browned, some leaves slightly cropped), limp morocco c. 1900 (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Institute of Actuaries (bookplate; 'given to the Equitable Life in March 1949').

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HODGSON, James (1672-1755). The Valuation of Annuities upon Lives deduced from the London Bills of Mortality, London: J. Hinton, 1747. 4° (210 x 156mm). (Margins browned, some leaves slightly cropped), limp morocco c. 1900 (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Institute of Actuaries (bookplate; 'given to the Equitable Life in March 1949').
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS SCARCE PAMPHLET. No copy is recorded as selling at auction since 1975. Hodgson also published The Doctrine of Fluxions (1736) and The Theory of Jupiter's Satellites (1749). Goldsmiths' 8296.

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