17 New Arrivals : Rare and Valuable Books on Statistics and Mathematics
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Paris: H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, 1746. Essai sur les Probabilités de la Durée de la Vie Humaine; d'où l'on déduit la maniere de déterminer les Rentes viageres, tant simples qu'en Tontines: Précédé d'une courte Explication sur les Rentes à terme, ou Annuités... Paris: Guerin Bros., 1746. Finely engraved arms..... More
Paris: Courcier, 1807. 4to (255 x 195 mm). xx, [2], 502 pp., including half-title and errata leaf. Contemporary prize binding in green calf, spine lettered in gilt, boards and spine with embossed decoration and gilt ruling, each board with a central gilt vignette of the Academy of Paris lettered "Prix..... More
London: John Martin & James Allestry, 1662. 4to (190 x 148 mm). [16], 79 [1] pp. Two folding tables. Bound in 19th-century plain vellum, spine titled in ink, marbled endpapers, several blank leaves bound in at end. Text browned mainly in outer margins, occasional minor spotting, title-page dust-soiled, somewhat stained..... More
Rome: Varese, 1665. 4to (226 x 168 mm). [16], 301, [11] pp., including final blank, engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 folding letterpress tables (one in red and black), full-page woodcut arms of dedicatee on verso of title-page, woodcut initials, tailpieces and illustrations. Two neat composite eclectic zodiacs in contemporary ink are..... More
Paris: chez la Veuve Desaint, 1788. 4to (254 x 200 mm). xii, 512 pp., including half title. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine with floral gilt decoration, 5 raised bands and gilt-lettered label (lower joint of front board partially split and with old repair, little wear to extremities, corners scuffed), marbled..... More
Paris: Mme Ve Courcier, 1814. 8vo (197 x 124 mm). [4], 190, [2] pp, including half-title, leaf of contents bound at end. Contemporary calf, gilt-decorated plain spine and board edges, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label (one corner slightly bumped, extemities little rubbed, top of spine chipped), red sprinkled edges, marbled..... More
Paris: Courcier, 1820. 1820, 1816-1825. 4to (250 x 200 mm). [4], cxlii [1], 4-506, [2]; 34; 50; 36; [2], 28 pp. Includes errata leaf, bound without half-title, all supplements separately paged and preceded by a half title each. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked preserving original spine label, gilt stamp of Francis..... More
Berlin: Johann Christian Papen, 1710. First volume only. 4to (194 x 145 mm). [22], 394 pp., including folding engraved allegorical frontispiece, some woodcut diagrams in text, and 31 folding engraved plates. Later carta rustica, modern folding cloth box. Some offsetting and browning of text and plates, minor occasional spotting, some..... More
Lyon: Bartholomaeum Vicentium, 1620. The Horblit-Tomash copy. Three parts in one volume. Lyon: Bartholomaeum Vicentium, 1620. 8vo (198 x 135 mm), [8], 56; [92]; [2] 3-62, [2] pp., separate title page to each part, first title printed in red and black, woodcut diagrams in text, privilege leaf at end. Old..... More
London: Apud Guil. & Joh. Innys, 1726. 4to (241 x 187 mm). [34], 530, [8] pp., including half-title, title-page printed in red and black, engraved portrait of Newton by George Vertue bound before page one, privilege leaf, dedication leaf, Halley's commendatory verse leaf, ad leaf bound at end; numerous woodcut..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1865. Dedication copy to Elie de Beaumont, inscribed and signed by the author, also signed by publisher. 1865-1866. Two parts in two volumes. 4to (273 x 220 mm). i-ix [2] x-xxxii, 428 pp., 12 engraved plates; [viii], 452 pp., 6 engraved plates. Contemporary three-quarter sheep over grained percaline..... More
Leipzig: Jakob Bärwald, 1550. 4to (184 x 144 mm). [4], 196 leaves, woodcut portrait of the author on title, woodcut initial. Early 19th-century half vellum, spine with gilt-lettered label (soiling of boards and spine, spine label chipped in upper right corner, little chipping of paper at board edges). Text somewhat..... More
Milan: Ex typographia Iosephi Pandulfi Malatestae, 1700. 8vo (236 x 193 mm). [8], 87 [1] pp. Woodcut device on title-page, decorative woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, errata on final page, double page woodcut table. Near contemporary simple cardboard (light staining and soiling). Text little browned, occasional minor spotting and brown..... More
Nürnberg: Johann Petreius, 1545. 4to (210 x 151 mm). [4], 92 leaves. Signatures: A-Z4 Aa4. Gothic letter, title and a few pages printed in red and black, decorative woodcut initials, woodcuts of abacus reckoning in text. 20th-century three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering and..... More
Palermo: apud Sanctum dominicu, 1550. 4to (205 x 150 mm). [2], xxix leaves, bound without the final blank. Printed in italic throughout, title-page within woodcut architectural border and full-page woodcut coat-of-arms of Charles V on verso, woodcut initials and 41 woodcut illustrations in text of which 5 are dated 1549..... More
Rome: Domenico Basa, 1586. 4to (212 x 155 mm). [8], 514, [2] pp. Signatures: †4 A-2F4 2G6 2H-2R4 2S6 2T-3M4 3N6 30-3R4. Woodcut Jesuit trigram device with motto "Vocabis nomen eius Iesum" on title page and final leaf recto, each part with separate half-title page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces..... More
Hagenau: Thomas Anshelm, 1519. 8vo (132 x 91 mm). [1], 154 (i.e. 151) leaves (f. 135-37 ommitted), some misfoliations (corrected in ink), several woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text, woodcut printer's device beneath colophon on f.154r. Old binding of reused vellum manuscript, later vellum labels on spine (cover soiled and..... More
