‎MASEFIELD John‎
‎RIGHT ROYAL‎

‎Right Royal‎

‎ Londres, William Heinemann, 1922. In-4, 90 pp., 4 pl., demi-vélin crème, filet doré sur les plats, dos long, tête dorée (accidents en queue du dos et coins, petites rousseurs). ‎

‎Édition originale de ce long poème en hommage à Right Royal, un cheval de courses. Un des 350 exemplaires numérotés et signés par l'artiste et l'auteur, il est illustré de 4 illustrations en couleurs montées sur onglet et de figures en noir dans le texte. Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s) * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve. ‎

‎The Antiquities of Furness; Or, an Account of the Royal Abbey of St. Mary, in the Vale of Nightshade, Near Dalton in Furness, Belonging to the Right Honorable Lord George Cavendish‎

‎London The Author by T. Spilsbury 1794 ‎

‎A decent copy of this First edition. Old (probably not contemporary) full leather boards, with gilt titles. This copy contains a folding plan of the Abbey, and a folding view of the East Prospect of the Abbey (both clean and tidy). There is also a folding map of the Liberty of Furness. This is somewhat creased and has a few small closed tears to it, and a couple of foxing spots. No loss though. Although anonymous, the dedication is signed Thomas West. The leather is somewhat rubbed, with a little loss to the head and tail of the spine - not much though. Internally mainly clean and tidy, with a touch of foxing and a few spots only. Owner's bookplate for John Abraham of of Liverpool. Two folding plates and a folding map. ESTC: T144672. [20],lvi,[2],288,[136] pp.‎

‎A Letter to the Right Honourable George, Earl of Macclesfield, President of the Royal Society, as to the Advantage of taking the Mean of a Number of Observations in Practical Astronomy - [""A MILESTONE IN STATISTICAL INFERENCE, AS WELL AS THE EARLIEST FORMAL TREATMENT OF ANY DATA-PROCESSING PRACTICE""]‎

‎(London, L. Davis, 1756). 4to. In recent marbled wrappers. In ""Philosophical Transactions"", Volume 49, 1755. All leaves reinforced in margin. Fine and clean. (14) [Leaves of contents to to vol. 49] Pp. 82-93 ‎

‎First edition of Simpson’s landmark paper: ""a milestone in statistical inference, as well as the earliest formal treatment of any data-processing practice"" (Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace). “Simpson was the first to attempt a mathematical proof of the law of large numbers" i.e., that the mean result of several observations is nearer to the truth than any single observations. A key feature of the paper was that Simpson chose to focus “not on the observations themselves . . . but on the error made in the observations, on the differences between the recorded observations and the actual position of the body being observed. . . [This] was the critical step that was to open the door to an applicable quantification of uncertainty” (Stigler 1986, 90-91). “Simpson was the first to characterize the errors in observations as independent events, taking positive and negative values with equal probabilities, and the first to provide a mathematical expression for the probability that the error in the mean result will lie between assigned limits” (Origins of Cyberspace, no 16.) Hook and Norman, Origins of Cyberspace, no. 16‎

‎The Richmond Heiress or, a Woman once in the right. A comedy acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by their Majesties servants‎

‎[London, Briswe, 1693], in-8, 3 ffnc + 64 pages. Exemplaire court de marges, sans la page de titre. Provenance : Bibliothèque Vanderpant (ex-libris héraldique) relié demi-maroquin à long grain bordeaux à coins, dos lisse, pièce de titre ornée au centre du premier plat‎