Annuities upon lives: or, the valuation of annuities upon any number of lives; as also, of reversions. To which is added, an appendix concerning the expectations of life, and probabilities of survivorship
Dublin: re-printed, by and for Samuel Fuller, 1731. Second edition, "corrected," 8vo, A-R4; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, text diagrams and tables throughout; 20th-century green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ex-Northwestern National Life Ins. Co., Minneapolis, with their rubber stamps; some shallow losses to front endpaper edges, textblock foxed, else very good and sound. An early actuarial treatise by one of the founders of the science of life-contingencies, which was first published in 1725 and dedicated to the Earl of Macclesfield (see DNB XIII, p. 536). See Morrison 1690 for the first edition. Item #44795
Price: $950.00
