MATHEMATICS - Bernoulli, Jakob. Ars conjectandi, opus posthumum. Accedit tractatus de seriebus infinitis, et epistola Gallice scripta de ludo pilae reticularis. With 1 folded. Woodcut plate and 1 (of 2) folded tables. Tables. Basel, Thurneysen, 1713. cl.-4°. [2] vols, 306, 35 pp. Leather binding circa 1800 with gilt spine label and handsome gilt spine (minor rubbing). PMM 179 - Poggendorff I, 156 - DSB II, 49-51 - Horblit 12 - Dibner 110 - Honeyman Collection 291 - First edition. - Famous and momentous treatise on the art of dice throwing. The work "was the first systematic attempt to place the theory of probability on a firm foundation, and it is still the basis of many practical operations based on probability: insurance, statistics and mathematical inheritance tables" (PMM). Finally, the letter on the "Jeu de Paume" game, probably the first attempt to link sport and probability theory. - The second folding table is missing. - Slightly fingerstained at the beginning, 1 marginal tear neatly backed. - Very good and clean copy. - Bookplate of the Lyon publishing house and bookshop Frères Perisse on inside cover.