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1868rif. 178Scarce first Russian edition of a major landmark of economic literature the Essay on the Principle of Population first published in English in 1798. With much added material. The translator P. A. Bibikov was a historian philosopher and literary critic who had already translated Smith's Wealth of Nations in 1866. With this background he added a wealth of material to this edition making it more than just a translation but also an a posteriori analysis. Next to the 80 pages on Malthus' life and works Bibikov added in a rich appendix translations of foreign commentators as well as his own footnotes relating to Russia. Very interestingly he updated and commented the many pages Malthus had already devoted to the Russian case. The appendix includes texts by Townsend Garnier Chernyshevskiy and Prudhon as well as a convenient 20-pp. alphabetical index. "The central idea of the essay - and hub of the Malthusian theory - was a simple one. If the natural increase in population occurs the food supply becomes insufficient and the size of the population is checked by 'misery' - that is the poorest sections of the community suffer disease and famine. Malthus recognises two other possible checks to population expansion: first 'vice' - that is homosexuality prostitution and abortion all totally unacceptable to Malthus; and second 'moral restraint' - the voluntary limitation of the product of children by the postponement of marriage." PMM. Provenance: Unidentified symbolistic booklabel to upper endpapers; small Baltic bookseller's stamps to lower endpapers. Physical description:Two volumes 8vo. 476 pp. incl. half-title title and table of contents at end; 468 pp. incl. table of contents. Later plain brown cloth author titled in ink on the spines. Condition:Very occasional light spotting. Glazunov, Skt. Peterburg, hardcover
1997rif. x-0714644048Frank Cass & Co 1997. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 168 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. Frank Cass & Co paperback
1817rif. 172742London: 1817. Second edition of Malthus's defence of the East-India Company's College at Haileybury his home from 1805-1834 offprinted from The Pamphleteer Vol. IX number XVIII and published the same year as the first. Malthus taught as professor of history and political economy at the East India Company College at Haileybury from its inception to his own death training generations of EIC management. By 1816 the College was attracting criticism both for its virtual monopoly on Indian Civil Service training and for the actual quality of its teaching. A series of student disturbances throughout 1816 provided the immediate occasion for Malthus's defence which outlines a thorough analysis of the College's work as the best solution to the immediate demands of the Indian subcontinent. Octavo. Pp. 469-523 1. Disbound. Light browning and foxing to contents: a very good copy. unknown
1827rif. 195032London: John Murray 1827. One of the earliest works on the methodology of economics First edition of "a valiant attempt to resolve differences of opinion in political economy by codifying its terminology and establishing rules for the definition of terms. It could be regarded as one of the earliest works on the methodology of economics" ODNB. Malthus devotes separate chapters to among others the French economists Adam Smith Say Ricardo James Mill McCulloch and Samuel Bailey although the latter's name was not known to him. The work is bound with an offprint of J. R. McCulloch's hostile review of the work from the Scotsman 10 March 1827 in which McCulloch questions Malthus's qualifications for the office of "Dictator in the Economical Republic". Octavo 193 x 114 mm. Complete with half-title without terminal colophon. Recent brown calf spine lettered gilt marbled endpapers cloth hinge supports marbled edges. Library stamp "National City Library Jan 15 1921" to title page offsetting to half-title. Slight chip to corner of front free endpaper p. 3 with faint offset where the original title label was inserted some light foxing. A good copy. Goldsmiths' 25180; Kress C.1924. hardcover
1807rif. 185282London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1807. Though his theories were so cruel his heart and manners were most kindly and courteous Second edition presented and inscribed by Thomas Malthus: "East India College Awarded to Mr John Trotter at the Public Examination of December 1817 as the first of his Class in Political Economy T. Rob. Malthus". Malthus taught as professor of history and political economy at the East India Company College at Haileybury from 1805 to his death in 1834 training generations of EIC management. Writing many years later a former student recalled "We called him Pop; not in derision for we had a great but rather distant respect for him. Though his theories were so cruel his heart and manners were most kindly and courteous" quoted in Maureen Alexander Turner p. 54. John Trotter 1800-1825 entered the college in 1816 and subsequently joined the EIC; he died seven years later aboard the Royal George just off Penang in Malaya which was then an EIC port. Trotter was the son of Alexander Trotter d. 1842 the financially imaginative paymaster of the Royal Navy. His engraved armorial bookplate is in both volumes; Malthus's ink inscription is on the front free endpaper verso. The History of the Anglo-Saxons by Sharon Turner 1768-1847 was originally published from 1799 to 1805. It quickly became "a powerful influence on historical thought for the succeeding half-century" ODNB and remains acknowledged as a turning point in Anglo-Saxon studies and a benchmark in historiography. Writing with a clear eye on the British Empire of his own day - in which Trotter's East India Company played so prominent a role - Turner presents the Anglo-Saxons as central to the historical development that set England on its imperial course. 2 vols quarto 271 x 213 mm pp. x 499 1; viii 472 8. Large hand-coloured engraved folding map by Neele showing "Territory inhabited by the Ancient Saxons north of the Elbe" as frontispiece of vol. I. Contemporary calf rebacked spines ruled and lettered in gilt covers with double-rule panel in gilt crest of the East India Company College blocked in gilt to centre turn-ins in blind marbled endpapers edges sprinkled in brown and red. Light rubbing extremities neatly restored infrequent damp staining to otherwise clean contents short closed tear to inner margin of folding map: just about a very good copy. Maureen Alexander Turner The Educational Ideas and Influence of Thomas Robert Malthus 1766-1834 University of Glasgow Department of Education PhD thesis 1991. unknown
1806rif. ZB1325657London: J. Johnson 1806. 2 vols. xvi 505 58 index vii 559 pp. contemporary full leather bindings now dry and worn a few areas of the spine of the first volume now lacking the leather covering masonic library and private book plate to the front paste down of each volume scant foxing else internally clean and tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. London: J. Johnson hardcover
2019rif. 1-3337756328hansebooks 2019. Paperback. New. 8.46x5.98x1.06 inches. hansebooks paperback
1803rif. 182784London: printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley 1803. Malthus softens his conclusions The Great Quarto edition notionally the second edition following the first of 1798 but so substantially enlarged rewritten and re-titled as to be effectively a new book. The Essay was one of the most influential works in the history of economic thought arguing the link between food supply and population size and the inevitability of famine and suffering once population exceeded its limits. "For today's readers living in a post-Malthus era the world's population problems are well known and serious but no longer sensational. It is difficult therefore to appreciate the radical and controversial impact made by the Essay at the time of publication. It challenged the conventional notion that population growth is an unmixed blessing. It discussed prostitution contraception and other sexual matters. And it gave vivid descriptions of the horrendous consequences of overpopulation and of the brutal means by which populations are checked" ODNB. In the second edition Malthus "made clear what was only implicit in the first that prudential restraint should if humanly possible be 'moral restraint' - that is delayed marriage accompanied by strictly moral pre-marital behaviour although he admitted that moral restraint would not be easy and that there would be occasional failures. Whereas in the first edition he had said that all the checks to population would involve either misery or vice in the second edition he attempted to lighten this 'melancholy hue' and 'to soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first essay' by arguing that moral restraint if supported by an education emphasizing the immorality of bringing children into the world without the means of supporting them would tend to increase rather than diminish individual happiness" ODNB. Quarto 269 x 205 mm pp. viii 4 610. Contemporary tree calf rebacked and recornered with original spine laid down spine gilt in compartments with black morocco label. Twentieth-century bookplate of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest. Scattered light foxing else a very good copy. Einaudi 3668; Goldsmiths' 18640; Kress B.4701. unknown
2007rif. x-1602068623Cosimo Inc 2007. Hardcover. New. 324 pages. 8.60x5.60x1.20 inches. Cosimo Inc hardcover
1853rif. 133496London: Simpkin and Marshall 1853. Presentation copy to the editor of The Economist Second edition presentation copy of Malthus's Definitions edited and with a new preface notes and additional remarks by John Cazenove 1788-1879 an intimate friend and protégé of Malthus who described him as "a very clever man and good political economist." Cazenove's writings are "a worthwhile contribution to political economy in their own right and an important part of the anti-Ricardian tradition" New Palgrave. This copy is inscribed on the half-title: "To the Editor of The Economist with Mr Cazenove's Comps." The founder and first editor of The Economist was James Wilson 1805-1860 a businessman economist and Liberal politician who continued as editor until 1857. Octavo. Original green cloth printed paper label to front board yellow coated endpapers. Pencil annotation to one or two pages. Spine ends and corners rubbed joints with short splits to extremities occasional marginal finger marks: a very good copy. Sraffa 3702. hardcover
1820rif. 168311London: John Murray 1820. In the original boards First edition of the author's major late work a re-examination of his economic work in the early 1800s and a point-by-point response to David Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy 1817. Notably Keynes held that "if economics had followed Malthus instead of being constrained by Ricardo in an artificial groove the world would be a much wiser and richer place" ODNB. In the Principles Malthus summarizes his earlier writing on rents currency food prices and corn laws. The book was conceived as a series of tracts rather than a comprehensive and systematic treatise though Malthus published it to establish his own position against that of Ricardo with whom he disagreed about the nature of labour demand and profit. "In his Principles of Political Economy Malthus was proposing investment in public work and private luxury as a means of increasing effective demand and hence as a palliative to economic distress. The nation he thought must balance the power to produce and the will to consume" DSB. In the 20th century the Principles received recognition "largely as a result of the comments by J. M. Keynes in the 1930s. Keynes argued that Malthus's theory of effective demand provided a scientific explanation of unemployment and that the hundred-year domination of Ricardo over Malthus had been a disaster for the progress of economics" ODNB. This copy includes an extremely early reback presumably by the original bookseller. The reback preserves the original blue boards while a section has been cut from the cloth backstrip to expose the original printed label. Octavo. Uncut in original blue boards early reback in brown cloth preserving original printed paper label. Circular "Y.S." ink stamp to title. Light bumping and wear moderate foxing to endpapers and contents front hinge cracked and lacking front free endpaper holding firm slight separations between and within several gatherings small hole to head of K4: a very good copy. Goldsmiths' 22767; Kress C.577; Mattioli 2221. hardcover
1718rif. 149970London: John Murray Eden: London J. Wright 1817 Eden: 1800. An excellent copy in contemporary calf Fourth edition of Malthus's Essay first published in 1798 one of the most important and influential works in the history of economic thought and the foundation text of modern demography. The second volume is appended with the first edition of Frederick Morton Eden's An Estimate of the Number of Inhabitants in Great Britain an appropriate pairing by the contemporary owner - Eden's population census preceded the first national decennial population census by a year but undershot the official figure by five million. It nonetheless marks like Malthus's Essay an important milestone in the study of population. Two works bound in 2 vols octavo 210 x 128 mm. Bound without half-titles. Contemporary sprinkled calf orange and dark green morocco labels gilt in compartments gilt roll border to covers blind serrated turn-ins marbled endpapers brown speckled edges. Contemporary ownership signature of Thomas Entwisle to title pages later small ink notation to front free endpapers versos. Minor patch of abrasion to rear cover of vol. I joints just beginning to split but holding firm light browning to Eden else contents fresh. An excellent copy. unknown
rif. 49070Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company 1815. CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS. Octavo pp.8 560 2. In contemporary tan half calf with raised bands gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. All edges flecked blue / grey. Some light edge wear; a few marks to spine. Very good indeed. Works reviewed include Wordsworth's 'The Excursion'; 'Publications concerning the Revival of the Slave Trade'; James Hogg's 'The Queen's Wake'; Scott's 'Waverley' and 'The Lord of the Isles'; Lewis and Clarke's 'Travels to the Source of the Missouri River'; Mungo Park's 'The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa'; and Thomas Malthus' 'Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws' and 'The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn'. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1815 unknown
1826rif. 857601826. MALTHUS Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population; or A View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness. London: John Murray 1826. Two volumes. Octavo contemporary full diced brown calf raised bands black and red morocco spine labels marbled endpapers and edges. Housed in a custom slipcase. $2600.1826 edition of MalthusÕ controversial Essay the final one published in his lifetime in contemporary calf.""One of the founders of modern economics"" Malthus first published his highly contested Essay on the Principles of Population in 1798. This landmark work ""was originally the product of a discussion on the perfectibility of society with his father who urged him to publish. Thus the first edition published anonymously was essentially a fighting tract but later editions were considerably altered and grew bulkier as Malthus defended his views against a host of criticsÉ The Essay was highly influential in the progress of thought in early 19th-century Europe and his influence on social policy was considerableÉ Both Darwin and Wallace clearly acknowledged Malthus as a source of the idea of 'the struggle for existence"" PMM 251. ""The achievement of Malthus was the exposition of the theory of population; and his name has been associated so closely with this theory that like Darwin's it has added a new adjective to the language of civilized peoples"" Palgrave II:670-1. This is the sixth edition the final one to be published in his lifetime. Lowndes 1459. Goldsmiths 24893. Early owner signatures dated 1874.Text quite fresh and clean Volume II with small chip to rear free endpaper slight rubbing edge-wear to contemporary boards. An extremely good copy. hardcover
1809rif. 93446Paris: J. J. Paschoud 1809. The most influential work of its era on population in a contemporary binding First French edition translated by Pierre Prévost. First published in English in 1798 it was perhaps the most influential work of its era on population arguing that the growth of a population would always outrun its ability to feed itself. The first edition was so successful that Malthus soon elaborated on it under his real name culminating in the sixth edition of 1826 which was a scholarly expansion of the first. A political economist who occupies a hallowed place in the history of biology Malthus was acknowledged by both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace as a key influence in developing the theory of natural selection. 3 vols octavo. Contemporary quarter calf marbled boards brown morocco labels spines lettered in gilt with gilt and black motifs edges uncut. Board edges slightly faded and a little scuffed joints tender tips bumped and lightly rubbed. A very good set. Carpenter XXXII 7; Kress B.5591. hardcover
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1820rif. 948P11London: John Murray 1820. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". None. The first edition of this important economic work by the influential writer Thomas Robert Malthus. The first edition.'Principles of Political Economy' is now regarded as a very influential study on economics in which the author explains the historical economic depression in Europe and why they occur. The work rejects the idea of Say's law and Ricardo's 1817 Principles of Political Economy and Taxation generally. Malthus argued that any rise in wages above the subsistence level would encourage population growth which in turn would drive wages back down to subsistencea dynamic often referred to as the "Malthusian trap." By the economist scholar and cleric Thomas Robert Malthus. He published this work to rival David Ricardo's 1817 work 'Principles of Political Economy and Taxation'."The Principles had only a limited impact at the time and was severely criticized by J. R. McCulloch and Ricardo; the latter prepared extensive critical notes. But more recently it has received greater recognition largely as a result of the comments by J. M. Keynes in the 1930s. Keynes argued that Malthus's theory of effective demand provided a scientific explanation of unemployment and that the hundred-year domination of Ricardo over Malthus had been a disaster for the progress of economics. Keynes believed that if economics had followed Malthus instead of being constrained by Ricardo in an artificial groove the world would be a much wiser and richer place" DNBVery rarely seen eight pages of adverts to the rear dated April 1820. In a rebacked cloth binding. Externally generally smart. Spine label is rubbed with light marks and a small amount of loss. Minor bumping to the extremities. Light marks and a small amount of rubbing to the cloth. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with scattered spots. Tidemark to pages 159 to 194. Very Good John Murray hardcover
1803rif. 924F45DLondon: J. Johnson by T. Bensley 1803. Leather. Very Good. 11" by 9". None. The important and heavily revised second edition of Thomas Robert Malthus's discussion of the problems of a growing human population. First published in 1798 this is the substantially revised enlarged and re-written second edition of Malthus's important work.Malthus's work - which posits that the human population will outgrow the supply of food and resources - fuelled the debate on the size of the British population and contributed to the passion of the Census Act of 1800.A key argument within the book was dedicated to what is now known as the Malthusian Law of Population theorising that growing population rates will lead to a rising supply of labour inevitably lowering wages and leading to poverty.With the armorial bookplate of James Frampton to the front pastedown along side the former owner's ink inscription of N.B. Hobbs. Hobbs's inscription is also present to the recto of a front blank.This second edition incorporated details of population controls that had been used in various countries and periods. In a contemporary calf binding with light rubbing to boards. Minor loss to tail of spine label. Hinges neatly repaired. Retaining the original endpapers. Bookplate and inscription to front pastedown with further inscription to a front blank. Internally firmly bound. Significant spotting to endpapers and to first and final leaves. Pages bright with scattered further areas of concentrated spotting throughout. Very Good J. Johnson, by T. Bensley hardcover
1803rif. 143843London: T. Bensley 1803. Rare second edition of this cornerstone text of modern economics. Quarto bound in full diced morocco raised bands gilt titles and tooling to the spine front and rear panels marbled endpapers. In very good condition. An exceptional presentation. “Malthus was one of the founders of modern economics. His Essay was originally the product of a discussion on the perfectibility of society with his father who urged him to publish. Thus the first edition published anonymously was essentially a fighting tract but later editions were considerably altered and grew bulkier as Malthus defended his views against a host of critics… The Essay was highly influential in the progress of thought in early 19th-century Europe and his influence on social policy was considerable… Both Darwin and Wallace clearly acknowledged Malthus as a source of the idea of ‘the struggle for existence” PMM 251. T. Bensley hardcover
1820rif. 143844London: John Murray 1820. Rare first edition of Malthus' classic work. Octavo bound in full diced morocco raised bands gilt titles and tooling to the spine front and rear panels marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. An exceptional presentation. Thomas Malthus was an English economist known for his work in the fields of political economics and demography. His theory that prosperity and production lead not to utopia but to population growth and thereby back to social imbalance known as the "Malthusian trap" was expounded in his Essay on the Principle of Population 1789 one of his most notable and debated works. His Principles of Political Economy was written as a polemic against David Ricardo's On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation and Say's Law arguing that demand did not grow simultaneously with supply but that they should be analyzed independent of each other expounding ideas which became influential on Keynsian economics. Both these works were divisive incurring backlash and support amongst notable economists. The bleak message of his Principle of Population rendered Malthus a notorious figure: Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol for example justifies his refusal to give charity as a Malthusian attempt to control the population. John Murray hardcover
rif. B9780521075930Paperback / softback. New. Published in two volumes or as a set this provides a definitive scholarly variorum edition of Malthus's Principles of Political Economy. It contains the full text of the first 1820 edition including Malthus's own invaluable 70-page summary and contains details of all the additions omissions and emendations that occurred between the first and the second posthumous edition of 1836. paperback
1817rif. 720P18London: John Murray 1817. First edition. Hardback. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". None. The first edition of this additions volume to Thomas Robert Malthus' immensely influential essay on the issue of growing population. The first edition of this work.This work is Malthus' additions to his influential book 'An Essay on the Principle of Population' added to the fourth and earlier editions.'An Essay on the Principle of Population' is a treatise warning of the future difficulties with a growing population on Earth.The essay was not the first work to be published on population but it was incredibly influential as contributed to the passing of the 1800 Census Act.This addition volume highlights key issues in the original work and expands upon them giving the reader a wider understanding of the issue of population.Written by Thomas Robert Malthus a scholar who is best known for this work and for his influential economics.Bound without publisher's adverts. In the original publisher's marbled paper boards. Externally smart. A small amount of bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A little rubbing to the boards and spine resulting in fading of the marble pattern. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with some scattered spotting. Very Good John Murray hardcover
1820rif. 119668London: John Murray 1820. First edition of this classic work regarding nature of labor demand and profit. Octavo original boards retaining the original paper spine label. In very good condition. Ownership inscription from the African Society and stamp to the title page. Rare in the original boards. There can be no doubt that Malthus’ importance for economists today rests mainly on his Principles of Political Economy. It was because of this latter work that J. M. Keynes 1933 reinstated Malthus as a major figure in modern economic thought" New Palgrave. "In his 'Principles of Political Economy' Malthus was proposing investment in public work and private luxury as a means of increasing effective demand and hence as a palliative to economic distress. The nation he thought must balance the power to produce and the will to consume" DSB. "The Principles had only a limited impact at the time and was severely criticized by J. R. McCulloch and Ricardo; the latter prepared extensive critical notes. But more recently it has received greater recognition largely as a result of the comments by J. M. Keynes in the 1930s. Keynes argued that Malthus's theory of effective demand provided a scientific explanation of unemployment and that the hundred-year domination of Ricardo over Malthus had been a disaster for the progress of economics. Keynes believed that if economics had followed Malthus instead of being constrained by Ricardo in an artificial groove the world would be a much wiser and richer place" ODNB. John Murray hardcover
