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BERNOULLI (Jacques). *The Art of Conjecturing*, translated from the Latin by Jacques Bernoulli, with observations, clarifications and additions by L.-G.-F. Vastel. Caen, Printed by G. Le Roy, 1801. In-8, (1) title leaf, ii pp., 180 pp., one fold-out table; 19th-century red half-maroquin, plain spine.
Rare French first edition of the *Ars Conjectandi*. Only the ‘First Part’ was published.
Published posthumously in Basel in 1713, this work lays the foundations of probability theory. It opens with the treatise on ‘the method of reasoning in games of chance’ by C. Huygens.
Scuffs and paper loss on the covers.
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