PROBABILITY

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An Examination of some Questions connected with Games of Chance

Author: 
Charles Babbage (1791-1871).
Publication details: 
In Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh IX, pt. 1 (1821): 153-77.
£650.00

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).

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The Theory of Chances, or The Modern Development of the Rules of Probability; with some notes regarding 'probabilities' in the game of roulette at Monte Carlo.

Author: 
James McGowan, FIA, formerly Government Actuary to the South African Government [Gambling; Roulette; Monte Carlo; Theory of Probability]
Publication details: 
London: Lamley & Co. 1, 3, and 5 Exhibition Road, South Kensington. [Printed at the Oxford University Press by Frederick Hall.]
£120.00

Small octavo: 31 pages. Unbound and stapled. Very good, in grubby original pink printed wraps. According to one authority McGowan is the 'first fully qualified actuary in South Africa of whom there is record [becoming] Cape Government Actuary of the former Cape Colony in 1890'. COPAC (under mispelt name "MacGowan") only recordds the BL copy.

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