An Examination of some Questions connected with Games of Chance

Whole part, 4to. [4], iii, 261pp. 15 engraved plates (I-XIV, two numbered IX, one of which heavily foxed), one foldg, one hand-coloured), 3 fold. tables, Plate XIII out of sequence, text illustrations, Directions to Binders (hf-page bound in at back, and last folding table for Vol.VIII. Pp.259-261 (often omitted), XVIII. Account of the Establishment of a Scientific Prize by the late Alexander Keith [...] In a letter from the Trustees to Sir Walter Scott [..]. Ex lib (Liber Coll Reg Aberdeen in MS on title; bookplate of University College of North Wales). Original boards, worn, spine damaged with some loss to paper label (title), hinge strain, foxing & offsetting esp. on plates, light toning. First Edition. Babbage's only paper on probability.