Entwurf einer allgemeinen Leihe-Bank wo nicht nur Kapitalien zu gewissen Zinsen sowol ausgelehnt als angenommen, sondern auch zugleich andere verschiedene Anstalten als Leibrenten, Sterbe- und Wittwen-Kassen damit verbunden werden können.
4to. 154 pp. With folding table after p. 130. 19th century blue boards with cloth spine and handwritten label.
€ 4.500,00
First and only edition. A project for a loan-office, based upon the principles of probability developed by Leonhard Euler. Published simultaneously in French as "Eclaircissemens sur les etablissements publics en faveur tant des veuves que des morts", for which - according to his present preface - Fuß had done the calculations. Fuß was a Swiss mathematician who, recommended by Daniel Bernoulli, moved to Russia to become Euler's assistant and in 1800 secretary of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. As from page 83: "Analytischer Anhang die Auflösung der in obigem Entwurf einer allgemeinen Leihe-Bank vorkommenden Aufgaben enthaltend".
Removed from the Tbilisi Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory with their cancelled lithographic bookplate to the inside front cover; Georgian stamp to first free endpaper and to page 17.
Humpert 6798. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths' or Einaudi.