Académies de Pétersbourg, de Turin, de Philadelphie & de Padoue . . . A
Paris: de
l’Imprimerie Royale,
m. dcclxxxv.
[1785.]
QA273 .C74
First Edition. 4to. 249 leaves.
Entered in the undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
12.0.
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, 1743-1794, French mathematician and philosopher. A number of his works appear in this catalogue. This essay on the doctrine
of probability was reissued with a different title in 1804.
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De Moivre’s doctrine of Chances.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 109, no. 32, as above.
MOIVRE
, Abraham de.
The Doctrine of Chances: or, a Method of calculating the Probability of Events in Play. By A. De Moivre. F. R. S.
London: printed by
W. Pearson, for the Author,
mdccxviii
. [1718.]
QA273 .M65
First Edition. 4to. 97 leaves, engraved vignette on the title-page, engraved headpiece by B. Baron, engraved vignette at the end.
Lowndes II, 626 (with date 1717).
Haag VII, 434, i (with date 1716).
Abraham de Moivre, 1667-1754, French mathematician, fled after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes to London, where he became known to Newton
and other scientists, and in 1697 was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. The first edition of this work is dedicated to
Sir Isaac Newton; subsequent enlarged editions were dedicated to Lord Carpenter.
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Memoires Mathematiques de Diderot.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 110, no. 21, as above.
DIDEROT,
Denis.
Mémoires sur différens Sujets de Mathématiques. Par M. Diderot.
Amsterdam,
1772.
12mo. No copy of this edition was seen for collation.
This edition not in Quérard and not in the catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Entered without price in the undated manuscript catalogue.
Denis Diderot, 1713-1784, French philosopher, encyclopaedist and man of letters. The first edition of this work was published in Paris
in 1748.
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Price on Annuities.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 110, no. 22, as above.
PRICE,
Richard.
Observations on Reversionary Payments; on Schemes for providing Annuities for Widows, and for Persons in Old Age; on the Method
of calculating the Values of Assurances on Lives; and on the National Debt . . . Essays on different Subjects in the Doctrine
of Life-annuities and Political Arithmetick . . .
Second Edition, with a Supplement . . .
London,
T. Cadell,
1772.
8vo. 211 leaves including leaves of tables; no copy was inspected for collation.
This edition not in Lowndes.
McCulloch 251 (not this edition).
Palgrave III, 189.
Sotheran 13648.
For other works by
Richard Price, 1723-1791, Welsh dissenting minister and writer, and friend of Jefferson, see the Index. This is the second edition of this
work, first published in 1769. “Containing information on the population of New England, and forecasting that 70 years hence
it will be four millions, and in all North America above twice the number of inhabitants in Great Britain.”--pp. 104-5.--
Sotheran.
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