Miscellanea Analytica De Seriebus Et Quadraturis Accessere Variae Considerationes De Methodis

by Abraham De Moivre

$5,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1730. First edition of De Moivre’s last original book, complete with the separately issued Supplementum that so many copies lack, and the Haskell F. Norman copy, with his bookplate Norman 1531 . This is the Latin miscellany in which De Moivre first approximated the terms of a binomial raised to a very great power — the problem whose solution, completed in the privately

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