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réf. elala6131Washington City: Roger Chew Weightman 1809. 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. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xvi 510 xxxivindex; 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. elala6131 Washington City: Roger Chew Weightman, 1809 unknown
1809réf. 40999Washington City: Roger Chew Weightman 1809. 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 503: 256277. Roger Chew Weightman unknown
2007réf. x-1602068623Cosimo Inc 2007. Hardcover. New. 324 pages. 8.60x5.60x1.20 inches. Cosimo Inc hardcover
2008réf. SKU0635060Oxford University Press 2008-08-01. paperback. New. 7x5x0. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Oxford University Press paperback
réf. 112135London T. Bensley for J. Johnson 1803. . Second edition substantially revised; 4to 27.5 x 22 cm; a few pencil annotations C4 cancelled and signed C3 title neatly tipped on to following leaf small chip lower edge b2 occasional spotting; modern half brown morocco gilt spine in 6 compartments contrasting red morocco lettering-piece very good; viii 4 610pp. The second edition substantially revised and in essence a 'new work'. The second edition substantially revised and in essence a 'new work' in which Malthus defends his views against a host of critics Preface. 'The central idea of the essay and the hub of Malthusian theory was a simple one. The population of a community Malthus suggested increases geometrically while food supplies increased only arithmetically. 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. The Essay was highly influential in the progress of thought in early nineteenth-century Europe' PMM. In this enlarged 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' first edition p.iv and 'to soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first essay' second edition p.vii by arguing that moral restraint if supported by an education emphasising the immorality of bringing children into the world without the means of supporting them would tend to increase rather than diminish individual happiness. 'His work was an important influence on both Darwin and Wallace in their formulation of the concept of natural selection. It also had a profound influence on the decrease in size of families down to the present time' Garrison-Morton. Cf.PMM 251; Garrison-Morton 1693; Goldsmiths 18640; Kress B.4701. London, T. Bensley for J. Johnson, 1803. unknown
1803réf. 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
1803réf. 45423London: Printed for J. Johnson. by T. Bensley. 1803. Second edition or "A New Edition Very Much Enlarged". 4to. viii iv 610 pp. 19th century half speckled calf over marbled boards gilt rules to the spine gilt lettered green label all edges marbled. Binding expertly resewn and the joints neatly repaired occasional foxing mostly mild an attractive copy. First published anonymously in 1798 Malthus drew upon the works of Hume and Smith amongst others to explain his conservative conception of population control. "The central idea of the essay. was a simple one. The population of a community. increases geometrically while food supplies increase only arithmetically. The 'Essay' was highly influential in the progress of thought in early 19th century Europe. it came at the right time to harden the existing feeling against the Poor Laws" - Printing and the Mind of Man 251. Citing examples from other societies and sources not hitherto known to him Malthus rewrote and extended his essay significantly enough for him to consider this an entirely "new work" in his introduction to this edition. He expanded and refined his theory of positive checks on population growth those that increase the death rate and negative ones those that inhibit birth rates slightly softening his tone by arguing for greater moral restraint as opposed to the bleaker and cruder mechanisms of hunger disease and war to keep population numbers down and therefore keep overall prosperity up. Despite being hugely influential in economic and philosophical terms Malthus has always been a divisive figure and his arguments remain controversial to this day. London: Printed for J. Johnson... by T. Bensley... unknown
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1809réf. 191317Georgetown: J. Milligan 1809. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fair missing covers leather spine heavily worn pages have foxing spots binding split and several pages loose but all appear to be present with minor tears here and there Sold as a reading copy or binding set WAF. Missing covers and worn leather spine. Vol. 1: XVI 510 XXXIV pp. Vol. 2: vii 1 542 pp. This is the first American edition. Volumes 1 2 of a 2 volume set. Includes index. Scarce and worthy of rebinding. J. Milligan hardcover
1890réf. 226775London: Ward Lock & Co. Limited 1890. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover; large 8vo; 614 pages. Scarce in this edition. Dark red cloth with gilt on spine textured cloth. Rubbed edges. Clean dark blue endpapers. "1890" in pen on title page some small pen marks in very few margins. Bright and clean interior. VG/-- Ward, Lock & Co., Limited hardcover
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1992réf. 54027Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1992. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Very good. 392 pp. Octavo. 24 cm. Bound in navy leather with elaborate gilt ornamentation to covers and spine. All edges gilt. Gilt title stamped into spine with raised bands. Gold satin ribbon page marker laid in. Unused bookplate issued by publisher included. Corners slightly scuffed. Some scratching to gilt edges. Becoming increasingly more relevant Malthus' theories of economics outline the ways in which population exponentially increases while resources cannot creating chaos for the future of the human race. Easton Press unknown
1718réf. 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
1807réf. 52022HANDSOME COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BOLDLY SPECKLED CALF 2 vols. tall 8vo. iii-xvi 580; iii-viii 484 58 indexpp. contemporary boldly speckled calf smooth spines richly decorated in gilt in panels using two different designs black lettering and russet numbering labels gilt board edges gilt rolled spines a trifle chaffed at headbands some cracking at ends of some joints but overall a very nice copy. Near contemporary pencilled shelf number "D198" of Lord Dunraven of Adare Manor Co. Limerick on endpaper. KRESS B5219 This is edition incorporates the substantial revisions and additions which Malthus had made for his third edition of 1806. They are listed and described in full in his preliminary 'Advertisement' to that edition also printed here. The most substantial of the changes made was that "The chapters which were the fourth and sixth of the second book are nearly rewritten on account of an error into which the author had fallen in an attempt to estimate the fruitfulness of marriages and the number born living to be married from the data in registers" 'Advertisement'. Furthermore he added as an appendix here vol.2 p.429-484 his important Reply to the Chief Objections to the second edition of 1803. This appendix he had also published separately in quarto "for the accomodation of the purchasers of the former edition" 'Advertisement'.Malthus recommends that "those who have not the leisure or inclination to read the entire work will find in the appendix such notice of its most prominent arguments as will give them a good general idea of the aim and bent of the whole". In it he writes "My object is to correct some of the misrepresentations which have gone abroad respecting two or three of the most important points of the Essay. . The first grand objection that has been made to my principles is that they contradict the original command of the Creator to increase and multiply and replenish the earth . The next grand objection which has been urged against me is my denial of the right of the poor to support. . and lastly and rather a matter of feeling than of argument. Many persons have accused him of excessive pessimism in throwing a darker shade over our views of human nature and tending particularly to narrow our prospects of future improvement". All of these objections he attempts to refute. From the library of Edwin R. W. Wyndham-Quin Viscount Adare F.R.S. of Adare Manor Co. Limerick. Printed for J. Johnson .. by T. Bensley hardcover
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1798réf. 116955London: J. Johnson 1798. First edition of this cornerstone text of modern economics. Octavo bound in three quarters calf. Laid in is a clipping from an original manuscript signed by Malthus and entirely in his hand which reads in part "If at one time such a given product would make an effectual demand for certain commodities the conditions of the supply of which are supposed to remain the same it would immediately cease to make such effectual." Signed by Malthus in the lower right corner "Malthus." The verso features two further partial lines of text relating to supply and demand. In near fine condition. First editions of Malthus' magnum opus are exceptionally scarce. “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. J. Johnson unknown
réf. Z1-S-008-02812W. Pickering. Used - Good. Volume Three. Part II. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. W. Pickering unknown
1817réf. 71430Volume I xvi 496 pages. Volume II iv 507 pages. Volume III iv 500 pages. Published by John Murray hardcover
1807réf. 85583J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church Yard 1807. Hardcover. Very Good. 1807 2 volume set full leather bindings 4th edition London. Bookplates to front pastedowns both volumes. Volume one shows borer damage to margins not to text. Also shows contemporary ownership ink to title. Text is unmarked bindings are tight. Spines are sunfaded. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church Yard hardcover
