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1854008887Philadelphia: George W. Taylor 1854. Half leather. Very good. Philadelphia: George W. Taylor 1853-1854. Half leather. 24 monthly issues bound together. Complete; each volume contains 104 text pages. Half-leather with marbled boards; 6.75" x 10.25". Sound binding. Clean pages with light intermittent foxing. Old pencil annotation at top of the first title page. Light dampstain to the first six leaves. Some edgewear to cover; two-inch loss of spine covering at head and tail. This ardent abolitionist journal includes coverage of the debate regarding the expansion of slavery news of anti-slavery events some early writings of Frederick Douglass discussion of Quaker events American slavery laws Uncle Tom's Cabin temperance issues including the "Maine Law" and much more. The journal was the organ of the Free Produce Society of Philadelphia and its publisher George Taylor managed the city's Free Produce Store. 'Free Produce' included all manners of goods traditionally made with slave labor that were produced without any taint of slavery. Such items were much more expensive than slave-produced items but the most principled Quakers and abolitionists paid the price to keep their consciences clear. Although the Society disbanded in 1856 Taylor kept the store open until after the Civil War when customers no longer saw a reason to patronize him. See The Atlantic Monthly October 1868 and Cison's "Quality Came Second" in Main Line Today March 2007. Scarce. While digital and microform reprints are available at the time of listing OCLC shows only a few institutions holding intermittent original issues. Two auction records are on file at the Rare Book Hub. George W. Taylor unknown books
195945574Springfield: Charles C Thomas 1959. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth boards; dustjacket; 250pp. Tight clean Near Fine copy in lightly worn and soiled dustwrapper Very Good. Charles C Thomas unknown books
195540508Glencoe: Free 1955. hardcover. very good. 348pp. 8vo cloth edgeworn d.w. Glencoe IL.: The Free Press 1955. Very good. Inscribed by the author.<br/><br/> Free unknown books
164886hardcover. 369pp. 12mo cloth; stain on back cover. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1963. Very good<br/><br/> unknown books
1945319762Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications 1945. Illus. 4to. Green printed wrappers. Front cover off and chipped. Illus. 4to. Inscribed on the title-page "With my compliments to Percy Mackay from Abraham Wolkowitz April 19 1948." Signed also on the front cover and with a note with Wolkowitz's address on it. Haldeman-Julius Publications unknown books
1982S4421Princeton:: Remarks by Abraham Pais at the memorial ceremony Institute for Advanced Study March 15 1982. 1982. 281 x 217 mm. 4to. 9 ff. Mimeographed document. Self-wraps. Fine. This is an original mimeograph of Abraham Pais' remarks at the memorial service for Helen Dukas 1896-1982 Albert Einstein's secretary who was involved with Abraham Pais in important affairs such as the Oppenheimer case Einstein's death and helped Pais with the biography of Einstein Subtle is the Lord. Remarks by Abraham Pais at the memorial ceremony, Institute for Advanced Study, March 15, 1982. paperback books
199645439Baltimore:: Johns Hopkins University Press. Fine. 1996. Paperback. 0801854040 . First printing paperback. Fine in printed wraps. . Johns Hopkins University Press, paperback books
1996025792Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 1996. xvii 8 224 41p. stiff wrappers. Johns Hopkins University Press unknown books
1643178066Paris: Pierre Des-Hayes 1643. Hardcover. Good staining to boards and text block book plate inside front cover age toning throughout as expected with age. Text and illustrations are otherwise very clear!. Tan vellum boards with faded off-white title block on spine 8 28 pages 2 68 pages 34 unnumbered leaves of plates bw illustrations throughout. Text in French. The Universal Way of Mr. Desargues Lyonnois: To Lay The Axle & Place The Hours & Other Things on the Sun Dials. Added engraved illustrated title page special engraved title page with ornamental border following p. 28. The plates are mostly printed on both sides of the leaves and many appear multiple times final plate numbered '28'. Engravings by Abraham Bosse. Pierre Des-Hayes hardcover books
18261197002Boston Philadelphia: Cummings Hilliard & Co.; Carey and Lea 1826. First American. Octavo; vg-/none; brown cloth spine with remnant white paper label and black text; near total loss; unreadable; ex libris signature title-page; shelf wear and bumping; text block clean; deckle; Part I "Northern and Central Africa" 255 pp.; Part 2 "Journal of an Excursion" 104 pp.; Part 3 "Appendix" 112 pp.; light foxing; tables maps plates split starts hinges and joints; spine crown and foot chipping and tears; spot staining; edges wear and fraying; front board with very old arithmetic study; else very good. 1197002. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Cummings, Hilliard & Co.; Carey and Lea unknown books
199793879New York: William Morrow and Company Inc 1997. Hardcover. xxi 233p. very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. William Morrow and Company, Inc hardcover books
1756S13188London:: A. Millar 1756. 1756. Quarto. 4 xi 1 errata 348 pp. Portrait medallion vignette on title; mild foxing but barely noticeable. Original full calf red gilt-stamped leather spine label; hinges repaired with calf inner joints strengthened corners worn all preserving original spine. Bookseller's ticket: "Sold by Carpenter & Co. 14 Old Bond Street" London. Early ownership ink signature of Th. Spencer; penciled initials of F.N.D. see below. Very good. A KEY WORK BY THE FATHER OF PROBABILITY THEORY. Third edition. This is a key work by the father of probability theory in which major steps in the measurement of uncertainty were achieved. De Moivre is "best known in statistical circles for his famous large-sample approximation to the binomial distribution whose generalization is now referred to as the Central Limit Theorem. De Moivre was one of the great pioneers of classical probability theory." Bellhouse-Genest p.1. It is the first systematic treatment of probability in English. Abraham De Moivre became with Edmund Halley a founder of English actuarial science. The author's dedicatory letter is address to Lord George Carpenter 1702-1749 the first edition had been dedicated to Newton where the author states emphatically "that this Doctrine is so far from encouraging Play that it is rather a Guard against it. . ." DNB vol. 38 p.116. / "The first edition of this work contains 175 pages the second edition 258 pages and the third 348 pages. The following list will indicate the parts which are new in the third edition: the Remark pages 30/33 and pages 48 & 49 the greater part of the second Corollary pages 64/66 the Examples page 88; the Scholium page 95 the Remark page 149 and pages 151/159 the fourth Corollary page 162 the second Corollary pages 176/179 the note at the foot of page 187 the Remark pages 251/254. The part on life annuities is very much changed. The Introduction is very much fuller than the corresponding part of the first edition. In his third edition De Moivre draws attention to the convenience of approximating to a fraction with a large numerator and denominator by continued fractions which he calls "the Method proposed by Dr. Wallis Huygens and others". He gives the rule for the formation of the successive convergents. This third edition contains 74 problems exclusive of those relating to life annuities in the first edition there were 53 problems. The pages 220/229 contains one of De Moivre's most valuable contributions to mathematics namely that of Recurring series. Pages 261/328 are devoted to Annuities on lives ; an Appendix finishes the book occupying pages 329/348 : this also relates principally to annuities but it contains a few notes on the subject of probability." :: Todhunter. A very full account of the above third edition will be found in Todhunter's History of the theory of probability. / "De Moivre's first book on probability was based upon a short memoir entitled De mensura sortis published in the 1711 volume of the Philosophical Transactions. The 1718 first edition is essentially a gambler's manual giving a systematic presentation of the arithmetic principles upon which are based the solution of problems concerning the advantage of players and size of wager which may be lain in a wide variety of games of chance. Walker. It does not contain De Moivre's work on the normal approximation of the binomial probability distribution which ranks as the most memorable of his discoveries; this discovery was first printed in its entirety in 1733 in a Latin pamphlet which was later translated into English and incorporated in successively expanded versions in the second 1738 and posthumous third 1756 edition of The doctrine of chances." Norman. / In terms of mathematics applied to the human actuarial lifespan "De Moivre French Huguenot mathematician and demographer formulated the hypothesis that among a body of persons over a certain age the successive annual decreases by death are nearly equal." Garrison & Morton. / "De Moivre's work on the theory of probability surpasses anything done by any other mathematician except Laplace. His principal contributions are his investigations respecting the duration of play his theory of recurring series and his extension of the value of Bernouilli's theorem by the aid of Sterling's theorem". Cajori. / De Moivre born at Vitry received a varied education and settled in London as a Huguenot refugee in 1688. In England he continued his study of mathematics while working as a tutor. He is said to have acquired and read a copy of Newton's Principia and even to have carried loose sheets around with him to study at every available moment. This method of study worked so well that not only did he become one of England's foremost mathematicians but Newton in old age was in the habit of referring questions about the Principia to De Moivre. De Moivre's Doctrines of Chance is in fact a revised and expanded translation of his essay De Mensura Sortis which had been published in Latin in the Philosophical Transactions in 1711. In its Latin form it thus preceded Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi 1713 by a full two years. / De Moivre was a French mathematician famous for De Moivre's formula which links complex numbers and trigonometry and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1697 and was a friend of Isaac Newton Edmund Halley and James Stirling. Among his fellow Huguenot exiles in England he was a colleague of the editor and translator Pierre des Maizeaux. / Shafer points out that De Moivre one of Jacob Bernoulli's successors was among those who were applying Huygens' theories to both games and economies p. 11. He points out that the 1718 first edition was influenced by Bermoulli in that he used the word "probability" which was a word he did not use in his De mensura sortis. He continues: "We should not exaggerate De Moivre's importance in the eighteenth century. In retrospect he represents the pat that mathematical probability followed but he was hardly a philosopher of Jacob's caliber and Jacob retained a strong influence throughout the century among those who wanted to understand probability philosophically. Jacob's and Hooper's rules survived the whole course of that century in the works of philosophically sophisticated writers such as Lambert and Diderot. They disappeared only after Bayesian alternatives were developed by Laplace." pp. 13-14. Steve Stigler and Lorraine Daston expand on the use of the word "probability" in the eighteenth century. / Theodore Porter UCLA writes that De Moivre introduced the astronomer's law error to probability theory p. 93. "Like most early probability mathematics it first arose in the context of games of chance; it appeared as the limit of the binomial distribution. Because of its usefulness in combination and permutation problems the binomial had become the heart of the doctrine of chances. . . De Moivre then showed in a paper of 1733 reprinted in 1738 in the second edition of his Doctrine of Chances that the exponential error function gave a very good approximation to the distribution of possible outcomes for problems like the result of 1000 coin tosses Now for the first time it was practicable to apply probability theory to indefinitely large numbers of independent events." / PROVENANCE: I Thomas Spencer undetermined. II F.N.D. :: Florence Nightingale David 1909-1993 also known as F. N. David was an English statistician born in Ivington Herefordshire England. She was named after Florence Nightingale who was a friend of her parents. David did not like her forenames and thus always referred to herself as "F. N. David". She attended the Bedford College for Women in London earning her degree in mathematics in 1931. She then joined University College London to work with Karl Pearson who obtained a scholarship for her working as his research assistant resulting in a doctorate received in 1938 Pearson died in 1934. In 1938 her first book was published Tables of the Correlation Coefficient. During that period she was working with Jerzy Neyman. "During World War II she served as Experimental Officer in the Ordnance Board for the Ministry of Supply Senior Statistician for the Research and Experiments Department for the Ministry of Home Security Member of the Land Mines Committee of the Scientific Advisory Council and as Scientific Advisor on Mines to the Military Experimental Establishment. Her work during this time ranged from the study of bombing patterns and damage to the problem of discovering the placement of enemy land mines and a methodology for randomly placing land mines so as to avoid the semblance of any pattern in their placement." Garber et.al. After WWII she came back to University College London and was appointed professor in 1962. Five or six years later she took a position at the University of California Riverside becoming head of the Department of Statistics in 1970. Retiring in 1977 she came to Berkeley and continued her research. this book bears her initials on the Francis Galton Laboratory bookplate; she gave her books to Margaret Stein of Stanford University. See: M. J. Garber D. V. Gokhale J. M. Utts R. J. Beaver Chair "Florence Nightingale David Statistics: Riverside." Obituary; "A conversation with F.N. David" Statistical Science Vol. 4 No. 3235-246 by Nan Laird; J. Utts "Florence Nightingale David 1909-1993: Obituary" Biometrics 1993 49 1289-1291; Norman L. Johnson & Samuel Kotz eds. Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Wiley 1997 pp. 91-92. / REFERENCES: Babson 181 1st ed.; Ball A short account of the history of mathematics pp. 383-4; BM Readex Vol. 17 p. 751; Cajori History of Mathematics pp. 229-30; DNB vol. 38 p.116; Kress S.2793; Institute of Actuaries 1935 p. 39; Mansutti 504; Norman 1529 1st ed.; Pearson The History of Statistics in the 17th & 18th Centuries. . . pp. 155-60 165-66; Smith Source book in mathematics pp. 440-54; Stigler The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 1986 p. 70; Todhunter History of the theory of probability; Walker pp. 12-13; Wellcome IV p. 149; Westergaard pp. 104-5. Not in Goldsmiths or Hanson. / See: Raymond Clare Archibald "Abraham de Moivre"; David F.N. Games Gods and Gambling; The origins and history of probability and statistical ideas . . . 1962 pp. 161-178. A. Millar, 1756. hardcover books
17183173London: W. Pearson 1718. First edition. Very Good. Small folio 240 x 200 mm. Collates 4 xiv 175 1 blank: complete with an engraved vignette on title-page numerous engraved head and tail pieces and initials and an engraved vignette headpiece on page 1. With a dedication to Sir Isaac Newton. Contemporary speckled calf rebacked to style. Boards double-ruled in gilt. Spine with a red morocco label lettered and ruled in gilt. All edges speckled brown. Some minor soiling to final two pages. Some light toning from glue on endpaper edges. Previous owner's armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. <br/><br/>Abraham De Moivre was a mathematician and a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton to whom he dedicated the first edition of this work. "His work on the theory of probability surpasses anything done by any other mathematician except Laplace" Cajori. "De Moivre's representation of the solutions of the then current problems of games of chance tended to be more general than those of Montmort. In addition he developed a series of algebraic and analytic tools for the theory of probability like a 'new algebra' for the solution of the problem of coincidences which foreshadowed Boolean algebra the method of generating functions or the theory of recurrent series for the solution of differential equations. In the Doctrine de Moivre offered an introduction which contains the main concepts such as probability condition probability expectation dependent and independent events the multiplication rule and the binomial distribution" DNB. Very Good. W. Pearson unknown books
191530877New York: New York and Suburban Co-Operative Building and Loan Association 1915. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A fine copy. Unpaged 16 pp. 16mo. New York and Suburban Co-Operative Building and Loan Association unknown books
1988151634Lambertville New Jersey: Optique Gallery Press 1988. Hardcover. VG-/VG-. First page of one copy carries lavish signature of architect-former owner; gutter twixt pp. 12 & 13 is slightly soiled from a bookmark once left behind; otherwise clean. Other copy is clean and tight with some minor shelf wear to dj. Gray cloth bright blue & color illus. dust jacket 58 pp. 28 color plates 20 BW illus. Considers the life and work of Polish-born American artist Ben Solowey 1900-1978. Consists mostly of an illustrated text by Abraham A. Davidson. Includes a bibliography and more than 40 examples of the artist's work. A nice introduction to this artist. Optique Gallery Press hardcover books
1981UDAVEAR00LWIcon Editions 1981. Very Good. Davidson Abraham A. Early American Modernist Painting 1910 - 1935. New York: Icon Editions 1981. 324pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with crease across lower right front cover; black remainder mark on bottom. Icon Editions paperback books
1981989New York: Harper & Row Icon Ed 1981. Softbound. Good has been read. Wraps. viii 324 pp. 8 color 170 bw repros. Harper & Row, Icon Ed unknown books
1996122789University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press 1996. Hardbound. VG/VG. Rust cloth with black color-illustrated dustjacket. xviii 246 pp. 27 color and 142 bw plates. An authoritative and original presentation of research and historical perspective on Blakelock and his art. Well-illustrated. Pennsylvania State University Press hardcover books
197435051NY: Abrams 1974. 4to pp. 168. Index. With 154 illustrations including 61 plates in full color. A nice copy in slightly soiled dj. Abrams unknown books
1974107870New York 1974. hardcover. Color Frontis 154 Illus. b/w & color largethin 4to fabricoid d.w. New York 1974.<br/><br/> unknown books
1974015125New York: Harry N. Abrams 1974. 168p. 154 illus. of which 61 colored quarto format dj. Harry N. Abrams unknown books
1978165018NY: E. P. Dutton 1978. Softbound. VG Copy may have slight wear to cover corner and top of spine. Otherwise clean and tight. Illustrated wraps with red lettering. 202 pp. 18 color 73 bw plates. An important study of American art mainly of the 19th century that contained images or scenery that one would not reasonably expect to have encountered in reality during the time it was painted. Painting by Thomas Cole is on the cover. A standard oft-cited reference. E. P. Dutton unknown books
181220444Boston: Pr. by John Eliot 1812. 8vo. 184 pp. <br><br>On angels. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 25196. Contemporary quarter tan paper over light blue paper-covered boards spine with printed paper label. Front cover separated spine chipped joints cracked spine label rubbed. Boards with soiling minor discolorations and edge wear; chip at fore-edge; corners bumped. Moderate foxing inside; waterstains in upper margins of some pages. Edges untrimmed; one leaf with lower outer corner torn away. Ex-library with rubber-stamp on front pastedown penciled call number on verso of title-page and library shelf label now removed on front cover. Pr. by John Eliot hardcover books
168046842London: J.M. for Henry Herringman 1680. Sixth Edition. Quarto 30.5cm.; contemporary blind-tooled calf rebacked to style with period endpapers; mixed paginations 1 a-c4 B-3C4 3D2 3E-3Y4 3Z2; engraved portrait frontispiece by William Faithorne decorative head- and tail-pieces throughout. Boards show evidence of treatment mid-20th century ex libris of an Andrew Davis to front pastedown else a Very Good or better quite attractive copy retaining the contemporary boards. Printed by John Macock according to ESTC R14069; WING C6654. J.M. for Henry Herringman unknown books
1772007772London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols : For T. Cadell in the Strand 1772. Two volumes Very Good Plus in contemporary full calf back with gilt devices and rules leather label with gilt lettering covers with gilt rule later end papers which are stamped S & S light toning light rubbing to edges of covers overall a quite pleasing set. With preface and notes by the editor Bishop Hurd and a life of the author by T. Sprat. . Second Edition. Full Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols : For T. Cadell, in the Strand Hardcover books
