BABBAGE, Charles (1791-1871). A Comparative View of the Various Institutions for the Assurance of Lives. London: J. Mawman, 1826. 8vo. Large folding table, tables at end (occasional mainly marginal spotting). Contemporary or original textured cloth (a few tears, some dust-soiling). Provenance: Joseph [?]March, 1832 (signature on front free endpaper); some passages lined in pencil. FIRST EDITION of Babbage’s first substantial published work, the first detailed treatise on actuarial theory, with a table of mortality statistics, generally considered the first of its kind. Kress 24945; Origins of Cyberspace 36.