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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 3rd Edition. London: Printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, By T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, 1806. Third Edition collated and complete. Two volumes, in recent dark calf with gilt titles to red leather labels, gilt bands, marbled paper covered boards, new end papers, text blocks tight, tanned and foxed throughout, with some creasing, damp staining and wrinkling to the pages. Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (17661834) was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography. In his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus observed that an increase in a nation's food production improved the well-being of the population, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth, which in turn restored the original per capita production level. In other words, humans had a propensity to use abundance for population growth rather than for maintaining a high standard of living, a view and stance that has become known as the "Malthusian trap" or the "Malthusian spectre". Populations had a tendency to grow until the lower class suffered hardship, want and greater susceptibility to war, famine, and disease, a pessimistic view that is sometimes referred to as a Malthusian catastrophe. Pagination: xvi, 505, [63]pp; vii, [i], 559pp. Signatures: A to Nn in gatherings of 8, Oo in gathering of 4; A in gathering of 4, B-Nn in gatherings of 8. Provenance: no inscription or bookplates. Approximately 8 ½ inches tall (21.5cm). Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition recent dark calf with gilt titles to red labels, gilt bands, gilt volume numbers. Joints very good condition sound. Corners very good condition sound. Boards very good condition half calf and marbled boards. Page edges good condition top edge darkened gilt, others tanned and foxed. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition secure. Paste downs very good condition plain paper. End papers very good condition plain paper, subsequently tanned and foxed. Title good condition tanned and minorly foxed. Pages good condition foxed, tanned with minor marks throughout, some damp staining to the end pages of Vol I, creasing and waviness to the pages. See photos.

2 volumes, 8vo. (8 1/4 x 5 inches). [Vol. 1] xvi, 510, xxxiv pp.; [Vol. 2] vii, 542 pp. Contemporary tree calf, skilfully rebacked. Spines gilt ruled forming six compartments, lettering pieces in the second compartmenrs Provenance: Possibly John Barclay (1749-1824), former Mayor of Philadelphia from 1791 to 1793 First American edition of a fundamental text of Modern Economics. Thomas Robert Malthus was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography. Malthus came to prominence for his publication of the present work, first published in 1798. Between 1798 and 1826, Malthus published six versions of the essay, updating each edition to incorporate new material, to address criticism, and to convey changes in his own perspectives on the subject. Writing in response to Jean-Jacques Rousseau and William Godwin, specifically their approaches to the improvement of society, Malthus opposed the optimistic view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and, in principle, as perfectible. Malthus saw population growth as inevitable whenever conditions improved, thereby precluding real progress towards a utopian society: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man." Malthus laid the "theoretical foundation of the conventional wisdom that has dominated the debate, both scientifically and ideologically, on global hunger and famines for almost two centuries" (Daoud). He remains a much-debated writer. Shaw 17975; Daoud, Ade, "Robbins and Malthus on scarcity, abundance, and sufficiency: The missing sociocultural element" in American Journal of Economics and Sociology 69.4: 1206-1229; Harvey, David, "Population, Resources, and the Ideology of Science"in Economic Geography 50(3): 256277.

[Demography] FIRST TWO VOLUME EDITION. Octavos (22 x 14 x 8cm), pp.xvi; 505; [63], pp.viii; 559; [1]. Brown half calf, marbled paper over boards. Gilt ruling and red labels containing gilt titles to spines. All edges speckled blue. Interior relatively bright and clean, a few leaves spotted/marked. Infrequent pencil annotations throughout each volume. Small ownership inscription in both volumes to a front, blank leaf. Toning to corners of all endpapers. Marbled boards rubbed, some wear to calf spines and extremities. Very good. Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus, FRS (17661834), known as Thomas Malthus or Robert Malthus (his preference), was an English demographer and political economist. He is best known for his pessimistic but highly influential views on population growth. In 'An Essay on the Principle of Population' (1798) Malthus made the famous prediction that population would outrun food supply, leading to a decrease in food per person.

Full Leather. Etat : Very Good. Second Edition. Large Quarto. (26.5 cm x 21 cm). Pp. viii, [3] contents, [1] errata, 610. Bound in contemporary diced calf bordered by double gilt rules, artfully rebacked to style with corners restored, spine divided into 6 compartments with central blind-stamped ornaments flanked by narrow gilts rules, dog tooth rolls and dotted lines between raised bands, gilt titled direct, marbled endpapers, speckled edges. Endpapers and title a bit foxed, title and facing blank with brown spotting to inner margin (almost certainly caused by pressed foliage), but otherwise a very clean copy internally with only an occasional hint of marginal foxing, in a handsome and well-preserved binding. The Second Edition, known as the Great Quarto Edition, of Malthus's famous treatise on population. This edition was so substantially revised and enlarged from the anonymously published essay of 1798 that the author himself considered it almost a new work. The original essay was essentially a polemical tract, designed as a corrective to the utopian views of Condorcet and Godwin regarding the perfectibity of society. Malthus argued that progress of society will always be hindered by the tendency of the population to increase faster than the means of subsistence. While populations increase geometrically, food production only increases arithmetically, resulting in hardship and starvation for the lowest ranks of society. In the vastly enlarged 1803 edition, the product of five years of research and travel on the European continent, Malthus addresses the many misconceptions and criticisms of his original essay by presenting a far more thorough and balanced statement of his views. He begins the work with a lengthy historical analysis of the working out of his theory in many different types of societies throughout the world from ancient times to the present. By fleshing out his ideas with factual examples he claims to give his work, in his own words, "a more practical and permanent interest". As the extended title of the second edition indicates, the last half of Malthus's work is devoted to an issue barely touched upon in the earlier essay, namely the measures and expedients that may be taken by society to mitigate or eliminate the suffering resulting from population pressures. Here he softens the harshness of his original conclusion that the only checks on population consist in "misery or vice" (i.e. famine and disease, or homosexuality and abortion) by proposing a number of preventive measures that should be taken, in the form of education for the lower classes, reform of the poor laws, and "moral restraint" (i.e. abstinence and delayed childbearing) in order to avoid the ruinous consequences of over-population. Malthus's theory of population, though later qualified by technological advances in food production and birth control, remains one of the most influential works in the history of social and economic thought. Most importantly, it served to call public attention to population as a major factor in the progress of civilisation, and through its emphasis on social competition for scarce resources, "the struggle for existence", provided the critical impetus for Darwin and Wallace's theory of natural selection. PMM 25 1 (cf. 1st edition).

Primera edición de las adiciones, y cuarta de la obra en vida del autor. Esta edición reproduce el texto de la tercera edición con ligeras variantes. XVI-580 páginas.- VII-484 páginas, [60] páginas para "Index".- IV-327 páginas. Encuadernados los tres volúmenes en dos tomos, plena piel con lomo liso y hierros frios en ellos, tejuelo rojo. Magnífico ejemplar de época. 3 volúmenes en dos tomos. 22x13,5 cm. PMM 251. Goldsmiths 19373 y 21762.

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2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xvi, 510, xxxiv(index); vii, [1], 542. complete with half-titles. contemporary tree calf, rebacked (several small library rubberstamps, some foxing & browning throughout as usual more extensive on outer leaves). First American Edition, based on the revised and enlarged third London edition of 1806, of one of the most important and influential works in the history of economic and social thought. "'Malthus's law', that population increases at a greater rate than the means of subsistence, was one of the first and is still one of the most widely debated of modern economic theories. The work aroused a storm of controversy since Malthus held that checks on the growth of population would be necessary, a theory which is still not finally extinguished. Malthus has exercised a strong influence not merely in economics, but in the whole realm of social theory." (PMM) Goldsmiths' 19819. Kress B.5542. Palgrave II pp. 668-677. Shaw & Shoemaker 17975. cfNCBEL III 1294. cfGarrison & Morton 1693. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man. 251.

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