KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). A Treatise on Probability . London: Macmillan and Co., 1921. 8° (216 x 140mm). Half-title, adverts, and with errata slip at 2E3. (Margins lightly yellowed.) Original brown cloth (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance : H. ter Meulen, Jr. (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. 'This was at once a work of great learning and also an exposition of important original ideas. Its bibliography of the literature is one of the most comprehensive that has ever been made ... [Keynes'] ambition was to provide a firm mathematical basis for the probability theory' (DSB). Bertrand Russell wrote: 'The mathematical calculus is astonishingly powerful' ( Mathematical Gazette , July 1922).
KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). A Treatise on Probability . London: Macmillan and Co., 1921. 8° (216 x 140mm). Half-title, adverts, and with errata slip at 2E3. (Margins lightly yellowed.) Original brown cloth (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance : H. ter Meulen, Jr. (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. 'This was at once a work of great learning and also an exposition of important original ideas. Its bibliography of the literature is one of the most comprehensive that has ever been made ... [Keynes'] ambition was to provide a firm mathematical basis for the probability theory' (DSB). Bertrand Russell wrote: 'The mathematical calculus is astonishingly powerful' ( Mathematical Gazette , July 1922). [ With :] -- A Revision of the Treaty being a sequel to the Economic Consequences of the Peace . London: Macmillan and Co., 1922. 8° (217 x 138mm). Original blue cloth (light wear, spine lightly faded, endpapers browned). Provenance : H. ter Meulen, Jr. (bookplate, signature). FIRST EDITION. [ And :] -- A Tract on Monetary Reform . London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. 8° (220 x 137mm). (Edges lightly spotted, a few short tears, light pencilled marginalia.) Original blue cloth (light wear). FIRST EDITION. [ And :] -- Essays in Persuasion . London: Macmillan and Co., 1931. (Edges yellowed.) Original green cloth (light wear). Provenance : Dr. G. Delfgaauw (small stamp, light pencilled marginalia). FIRST EDITION. (4)
KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). A Treatise on Probability . London: Macmillan and Co., 1921. 8° (216 x 140mm). Half-title, adverts, and with errata slip at 2E3. (Margins lightly yellowed.) Original brown cloth (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance : H. ter Meulen, Jr. (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. 'This was at once a work of great learning and also an exposition of important original ideas. Its bibliography of the literature is one of the most comprehensive that has ever been made ... [Keynes'] ambition was to provide a firm mathematical basis for the probability theory' (DSB). Bertrand Russell wrote: 'The mathematical calculus is astonishingly powerful' ( Mathematical Gazette , July 1922).
KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). A Treatise on Probability . London: Macmillan and Co., 1921. 8° (216 x 140mm). Half-title, adverts, and with errata slip at 2E3. (Margins lightly yellowed.) Original brown cloth (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance : H. ter Meulen, Jr. (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. 'This was at once a work of great learning and also an exposition of important original ideas. Its bibliography of the literature is one of the most comprehensive that has ever been made ... [Keynes'] ambition was to provide a firm mathematical basis for the probability theory' (DSB). Bertrand Russell wrote: 'The mathematical calculus is astonishingly powerful' ( Mathematical Gazette , July 1922). [ With :] -- A Revision of the Treaty being a sequel to the Economic Consequences of the Peace . London: Macmillan and Co., 1922. 8° (217 x 138mm). Original blue cloth (light wear, spine lightly faded, endpapers browned). Provenance : H. ter Meulen, Jr. (bookplate, signature). FIRST EDITION. [ And :] -- A Tract on Monetary Reform . London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. 8° (220 x 137mm). (Edges lightly spotted, a few short tears, light pencilled marginalia.) Original blue cloth (light wear). FIRST EDITION. [ And :] -- Essays in Persuasion . London: Macmillan and Co., 1931. (Edges yellowed.) Original green cloth (light wear). Provenance : Dr. G. Delfgaauw (small stamp, light pencilled marginalia). FIRST EDITION. (4)
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