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[London:] Methuen, [1962 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Very good in price-clipped d.j.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, [1964] Cloth. Octavo. A little fading at edges of spine. Very good in very good dus t jacket. Spine of jacket is a trifle faded, and there is a little light edgewear.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1982] First edition. Clothbacked boards. Fine in fine d.j.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1912 Second edition. Contemporary half calf. Spine richly gilt-decorated, red label. . Octavo. A fine copy, wkitht he original wrappers bound in. Henry Poincaré (1854-1912) was one of the most versatile mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers of the pre-modern era. He came extremely close to announcing the special theory of relativity just months before Einstein. In this treatise on probability theory, Poincaré introduces the foundation of modern ergodic theory, and expands on Gauss's law of large numbers. Whereas Gauss (in Theoria Motus) proved the normal law of error by assuming that the probability of a certain deviation depends only on the magnitude of the deviation, Poincaré relaxes this assumption and shows that a law much more general than the Gaussian distribution may be deduced. (See Whittaker, The Calculus of Observations, p. 218.)

London: Hogarth Press, 1967 Boards. Octavo. Bookplate, address label. Very good in d.j. with slight browning.

San Francisco: David Magee, 1967 One of 475 copies, printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. Quarter red morocco over decorative boards, gilt spine. . Folio. Sixty full-size reproductions of original letter sheets, one in the rear pocket. Fine in plain paper dust jacket. Spine of jacket a bit browned. Original prospectus and order form laid in.

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, [1991] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1968 One of 125 copies reprinted from 'The Southern California Quarterly,' June and September, 1968. Cloth. Octavo. A few light spots on front cover. Very good.

Cambridge: Cambrdidge Univ. Press, 1966 First edition. Cloth. Two volumes, quarto. Plates. Fine in fine dust jackets.

Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, [1990] Second printing, with corrections. Boards. Thick octavo. Black and white illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.

London: Edward Arnold, 1911 First edition of the most acclaimed study of the impressing of leather bookbindings with a bookstamp. Light brown linen buckram with gilt spine and cover vignette in brown. Large octavo. With 151 illustrations of cameo book-stamps. Subjects include Abraham and Isaac, Anne Boleyn, Charlemagne, Christ, Queen Elizabeth I, the Lion of St. Mark, Philip Melancthon, the Tudor rose, the goddess Fortuna, St. George, etc. Light shelfwear, back hinge just starting to crack, fly-leaves slightly browned. A very good copy.

New York: Knopf, 1987 First American edition. Cloth. Large quarto. color and black and white illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j.

[New York:] Printed for the Members of the at the Curwen Press, London, 1937 One of 1,500 copies, signed by the artist. Off-white linen buckram with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. . Quarto. xi, [3], 214, [1] pp, with twelve color collotype plates. Spine a trifle discolored, as usual,Otherwise a fine copy. In fine ecru linen open-end slipcase.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1928] Black pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt. Octavo. Twelve full-page black and white illustrations, plus vignettes in tex. A few light marks to binding. Bookplate. Very good in fine d.j.

New York: New Directions, [1982] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1987 Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

London: Printed for Richard Sare, 1701 Second edition, with added material. Contemporary dark brown paneled morocco. Gilt spine with raised bands, all edges gilt. . Octavo. Joints rubbed, light wear at spine extremities. Marbled endpapers, contemporary armorial bookplate. A very good copy. John Richardson (1647-c1725) was a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and rector of the college, though he was ejecgted as a nonjuror. The present work, first published in 1700, was a refutation of John Toland's Amyntor or a Defense of Milton's Life (1699).

London: Faber & Faber, [1940]. First edition, printed in only 1,000 copies. Precedes the American edition. Black cloth with gilt spine. Octavo. Top edge lightly soiled. Near fine in lightly soiled, price-clipped d.j.

New York: Scribner's, [c1967] 1968 printing. Cloth. Octavo. Light shelfwear. Very good+ in price-clipped d.j.

London: Hogarth Press, 1950 Brown cloth. Octavo. Spine lightly toned, light offsetting to endpapers. A very good+ copy in near fine jacket with only light soiling.