MOIVRE, Abraham de (1667-1754). Annuities upon Lives . London: W.P. [for] Francis Fayram, Benj. Motte and W. Pearson, 1725. 8° (195 x 118mm). With final blank P4 (without the errata slip pasted onto it, spotted). Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITION of a work Moivre based on the mortality statistics gathered by Edmund Halley in the 1690's. It 'became a standard part of all subsequent commerical applications in England.' Kress 3595; Norman 1530. With Joshua Milne's A Treatise on the Valuation of Annuities and Assurances on Lives and Survivorships, on the Construction of Tables of Mortality, and on the Probabilities and Expectations of Life (London, 1815, 2 vols., without half-title in vol. II, FIRST EDITION), William Morgan's The Principles and Doctrine of Assurances, Annuities on Lives, and Contingent Reversions stated and explained (London, 1821), the same author's The Principles and Doctrine of Assurances, Annuities on Lives, and Contingent Reversions stated and explained (London, 1821 with manuscript corrections by [?]the author), and Thomas Simpson's The Doctrine of Annuities and Reversions ... with useful tables, showing the values of single and joints lives, &c., at diferent rates of interest (London, 1775, second edition). (6)
MOIVRE, Abraham de (1667-1754). Annuities upon Lives . London: W.P. [for] Francis Fayram, Benj. Motte and W. Pearson, 1725. 8° (195 x 118mm). With final blank P4 (without the errata slip pasted onto it, spotted). Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITION of a work Moivre based on the mortality statistics gathered by Edmund Halley in the 1690's. It 'became a standard part of all subsequent commerical applications in England.' Kress 3595; Norman 1530. With Joshua Milne's A Treatise on the Valuation of Annuities and Assurances on Lives and Survivorships, on the Construction of Tables of Mortality, and on the Probabilities and Expectations of Life (London, 1815, 2 vols., without half-title in vol. II, FIRST EDITION), William Morgan's The Principles and Doctrine of Assurances, Annuities on Lives, and Contingent Reversions stated and explained (London, 1821), the same author's The Principles and Doctrine of Assurances, Annuities on Lives, and Contingent Reversions stated and explained (London, 1821 with manuscript corrections by [?]the author), and Thomas Simpson's The Doctrine of Annuities and Reversions ... with useful tables, showing the values of single and joints lives, &c., at diferent rates of interest (London, 1775, second edition). (6)
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