LAPLACE, THÉORIE ANALYTIQUE DES PROBABILITÉS, PARIS, 1812, CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO-BACKED BOARDS

FIRST EDITION, 4to (268 x 207mm.), half-title, errata leaf at end (and changes made to errors in text in ink), contemporary red morocco-backed boards, partly unopened, uncut, lower cover slightly rubbed

Librairie Scientifique Albert Blanchard, bookseller's label; [Haskell F. Norman (1915-1996)] Janus Foundation Library, San Francisco, bookplate; bought from Jonathan Hill, New York, 1994

Tomash & Williams L28; Stephen Stigler, Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics, 24

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A GOOD COPY OF "THE CORNERSTONE FOR ALL SUBSEQUENT WORK IN PROBABILITY THEORY" (Tomash & Williams).