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1831WRCAM53414Georgetown D.C.: Charles Cruikshank 1831. 2230pp. Half title. Original half cloth and paper boards printed paper label. Front hinge cracked label chipped light edge wear. Light foxing. Very good. Malthus elaborates on his essay concerning checks to population growth in the different states of modern Europe and discusses prospects for mitigating the "evils Arising from the Principle of Population" and other matters. The appendix is Malthus' rebuttal of Wayland and Greene whose works disagreed with his thesis. The first American edition of Malthus' main work was issued by the same printer in Georgetown and is rare; this addenda is even rarer. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 8122. Charles Cruikshank hardcover books
1831100869Georgetown D. C.: Published by Charles Cruikshank Rind's Press 1831. First American edition first published in London in 1817. Original cloth backed tan boards printed paper label reading "Additions / to an / Essay /on / Population / by T.B. Malthus" uncut partially unopened. Some spotting and browning of binding rubbing with some wear to extremities some foxing and spotting of leaves insect trail along lower inner hinge marginal tears on R4 and Cc4 not affecting text. A very good copy in brown cloth clamshell box. First American edition first published in London in 1817. Very scarce.This work contains new chapters additions and corrections included in the fifth edition separately published with a new title page and pagination for those who already had the earlier editions. The Contents leaf lists: Book II Chapters I Checks to Population in France and VII Checks to Population in England; Book III Chapters II Of Systems of Equality IV Of Emigration VI Of Poor Laws VIII-XIV the Agricultural and Commercial Systems Corn Laws Exportation and Importation and "Of increasing Wealth as it affects the Condition of the Poor; Book IV Chapters VI "Effects of the Knowledge of the Principal Cause of Poverty on Civil Liberty" XII "Different Plans of Improving the Condition of the Poor considered" and the Appendix. There are new chapters on the Poor and Corn Laws. a revised chapter on rent and especially the change in Chapter III which formely dealt with Godwin and his "Systems of Equality" now relate to Robert Owen his Utopian systems and his "New View of Society". In 1817 at the height of his success Robert Owen addressed the House of Commons speaking on his methods and ideas. Owen had disagreed with Malthus' theories of population. In 1824 Owen had come to America and purchased what became New harmony a communal society experiment. It was not successful and Owen returned to England in 1828. The Appendix contains Malthus' responses to the publication of Principles of Population and Production by Mr. Wayland and An Inquiry into the Principle of Population by James Grahame. Each chapter notes where the additions should be placed referring to the English edition of 1807 and American edition of 1809. Goldsmiths' Kress Library 26723.2; Kress C2883; Kress B6973 Goldsmiths' 21762 Einaudi 3664 last three for London ed. Published by Charles Cruikshank, Rind's Press unknown books
1817264447London: John Murray 1817. First edition. iv 327 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf rebacked endpapers renewed. Joints rubbed title and first few leaves a little foxed contents generally clean. First edition. iv 327 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Issued in conformity with but separately from the fifth edition - the penultimate edition before the sixth and final one in Malthus' lifetime. Kress B.6973; Goldsmith 21762 John Murray unknown books
181722733London: John Murray 1817. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Rebound in later buckram. Title a little foxed contents generally clean. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Malthus' Additions to An Essay. Issued in conformity with but separately from the fifth edition - the penultimate edition before the sixth and final one in his lifetime. Kress B.6973; Goldsmith 21762 John Murray unknown books
1970UMALESS00LAWPenguin 1970. Very Good. Malthus Thomas Robert. An Essay on The Principle of Population. Flew Antony. New York: Penguin 1970. 291pp. Indexed. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped edges and subtly rubbed extremities. Contemporary owner's name penned on first page . Penguin paperback books
1798116955London: 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 books
2007448692007. ISBN-13: 9781584777281; ISBN-10: 1584777281. One of the Most Influential Works on Political Economy Malthus Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks On the Speculation of Mr. Godwin M. Condorcet and Others. Originally published: London: J. Johnson 1798. ix 396 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777281; ISBN-10: 1584777281. Hardcover. New. $125. Reprint of the very rare first edition. One of the most influential works on political economy it had a profound effect on social policy during the nineteenth century especially on the development of harsher poor laws in Great Britain. It was the guiding spirit behind the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. The central point of the Essay is that population increases geometrically while food supplies increase arithmetically which will eventually lead to starvation and disease in the poorest sections of the community. In order to prevent this from happening he posits people especially the poor should have children later in life and limit the size of their families. unknown books
1817140901001London: John Murray 1817. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi 496 p; iv 507 p; 500 p. "The fifth edition with important additions." Complete and unrestored in three volumes. Original boards with orginal paper spines most of which are not surprisingly gone given their fragility. In protective mylar wraps. Very Good condition overall: bindings degraded over time but completely unrestored and text in very nice shape. Clean pages-- no marks-- generally bright for age. Some foxing throughout text and typical waviness. Bumped corners. Not ex-library! Old London bookseller's stamp on front paste downs. Secodn volume front cover creased missing small strip o paper. Third volume front board detached the other covers are intact; the mylar wraps keep them all in place. Nice condition overall. A greatly revised and expanded edition of Malthus' most famous work the second-to-last published during his lifetime. Contains revisions of his views on rent a deeper look at how the political organization of states was determined by population and what limits to population growth were already occurring in Europe and an appendix with replies to critics. An enormously influential and controversial work that inspired Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. John Murray hardcover books
1807314917London: Printed for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard by T. Bensley 1807. Fourth edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf marbled edges. Rebacked in gilt calf one hinge tender. Fourth edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Malthus is as controversial as he is influential. "The central idea of the essay . was a simple one. The population of a community . increases geometrically while food supplies increase only arithmetically. If the natural increase in population occurs the food supply becomes insufficient and the size of the population is hecked by 'misery'" PMM. PMM 251 first edition; Kress 5219 Printed for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard, by T. Bensley unknown books
180955964Washington City: Printed and published by Roger Chew Weightman another issue of the same printing was published at Georgetown by J. Milligan 1809. First American from the third London edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xvi 510 xxxiv; vii 542 pp. Half-title to each volume present. Here Malthus "laid down his famous principle that population increases in a geometrical and subsistence only in an arithmetical ratio and argued that population is necessarily limited by the 'checks' of vice and misery" DNB. PMM 251 for the first edition published London 1798. American Imprints 17975. Recent quarter-calf and marbled boards new leather spine labels. Persistent light foxing but a very good copy in an attractive new binding. 2458. <br/><br/> Printed and published by Roger Chew Weightman (another issue of the same printing was published at Georgetown by J. Milligan) hardcover books
180345495London: Printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley 1803. Second enlarged edition. Large 4to pp. viii 3contents 1errata 610. Bound in contemporary full calf rebacked at an early time with the original spine laid down. Ownership signature on the endpaper of "N.W. Ridley Colborne" on the endpaper and "Horace W. Baddle 1859" on the top of the title page. Some light intermittant spotting and staining but a nice clean copy with wide margins. Garrison-Morton 1693; Carpenter XXXII 2; Einaudi 3668; Goldsmiths' 18640; Kress B.4701; Mattioli 2207 See Printing and the Mind of Man # 251. The great quarto edition of Malthus' masterpiece a very important work in the field of economics and a source of Darwin's "idea of 'the struggle for existence'" PMM The ReverendThomas Robert Malthus FRS 1766 - 1834 was a British scholar influential in political economy and demography. He has become widely known for his theories concerning population and its increase or decrease in response to various factors. The six editions of his Principles of Population published from 1798 to 1826 observed that sooner or later population gets checked by famine disease and widespread mortality. The central idea is a simple one: that population expands geometrically while food production grows arithmetically. This edition though being the second may be considered as a new work which Malthus himself also claimed; -it is thoroughly revised and much enlarged nearly four times the length of the original essay the title has been changed the title of the first is merely: "An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculation of Mr. Godwin M. Condorcet and Other Writers" He notes: "In the course of this inquiry I found that much more had been done than I had been aware of when I first published the essay. The poverty and misery arising from a too rapid increase of population had been distinctly seen and the most violent remedies proposed so long ago as the times of Plato and Aristotle. And of late years the subject had been treated in such a manner by some of the French economists occasionally by Montesquieu and among our own writers by Dr. Franklin Sir James Steuart Mr. Arthur Young and Mr. Townsend as to create a natural surprise that it had not excited more of the publick attention" Preface to the second edition p. IV. "The "Essay" was highly influential in the progress of thought in the early nineteenth-century Europe. "Parson" Malthus as Cobbett dubbed him was for many a monster and his views were often grossly misinterpreted. But his influence on social policy whether for good or evil was considerable. The Malthusian theory of population came at the right time to harden the existing feeling against the Poor Laws and Malthus was a leading spirit behind the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834." PMM 251. Printed for J. Johnson, by T. Bensley unknown books
1809101490Washington: Printed and Published by Roger Chew Weightman 1809. First American edition of this cornerstone text of modern economics. Octavo 2 volumes bound in contemporary calf rebacked red and black morocco spine labels gilt titles. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper "An application was made to Bishop Watson to answer this book on the grounds that it discouraged benevolence. He declined excusing himself however unfavorably saying that he saw its object was to prove that population could not increase beyond the level of rules of self-evident truth. A much better employment would have been to discover means of resistance that might supply the increasing wants of the population." Bishop Richard Watson served as the Bishop of Llandaff from 1782 to 1816 and published a number of political pamphlets contributing to the Revolution Controversy regarding the fundamental politics of the French Revolution. Watson corresponded with and published several counterarguments to the works of Thomas Paine and Thomas Robert Malthus among others. In very good condition with some browning to the text as usual sporadic foxing. Rare and desirable. 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. Printed and Published by Roger Chew Weightman unknown books
180610970London: J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1806. Third Edition. Leather bound. Very good. The Third Edition of An Essay On the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus. Octavo two volumes xvi 505pp 70pp index; vii 559pp. Period full calf titles in gilt on spines over black labels gilt decorations on spines. Previous ownership inscriptions on front endpapers of both volumes. Bookseller's label on front pastedown endpaper of Volume I. Leather is worn with some loss at top of spine of both volumes. Text block stable in both volumes general and even toning to leaves. Text block free of any marks or notations. Goldsmiths 19210 Kress B5067. The first edition of An Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society was published anonymously by Malthus in 1798 as a pamphlet. The book received wide attention for Malthus's argument that hopes for human happiness are in vain because population will outrun the growth of production. He believed that the human population would continue to grow unchecked resulting in long term human poverty now known as the Malthusian Law of Population. Until this point fertility was viewed as a national imperative and a path to continued economic improvement. This work by Malthus changed the national mindset in Great Britain about childbearing. This work first appeared in book form in 1803 with this copy being the third edition published in 1806. J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-Yard unknown books
1806236862London: Printed for T. Johnson 1806. Third edition. xvi 505 1 blank 60 index pp.; vii 1 blank 559 1 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarter calf; joints cracked two boards detached; rubbed and scuffed; scattered foxing throughout; withal a good serviceable copy. Third edition. xvi 505 1 blank 60 index pp.; vii 1 blank 559 1 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. GERITS: Third edition the first to be published in 2 volumes and the first published after the Great Quarto edition of 1803 of one of the most important and influential books in the history of economic thought. The third edition contained numerous revisions among which was a text entitled A Reply to the Chief Objections which have been urged against the Essay on the Principle of Population which was also published separately so that it might be bound with earlier ones. Kress B.5067; Goldsmiths 19210; Einaudi 3669; Carpenter Economic Bestsellers XXXII 3; PMM 251 for the first edition; Blaug Great Economists before Keynes p. 141ff Printed for T. Johnson unknown books
1827170223003London: John Murray 1827. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing. Finely bound in brown leather with raised bands and gilt stamping. Contents lightly toned light restoration to several pages evident. Title page and text of last chapter show light evidence of erased pencil markings. Previous owner name on half title page. An important and early work on economic methodology. John Murray hardcover books
182734205London: John Murray 1827. First edition 8vo pp. viii 261 2; original blue paper-covered boards printed paper label on spine; a little cracking of the paper along the front joint else a very good copy in a quarter green morocco slipcase. This is Malthus's last major work. In it he criticises a number of classical economists including Smith Say Ricardo and McCulloch. Say is given particular attention over the idea of value. Malthus then offers his own definitions of 70 economic concepts. "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. The Vander Poel copy; engraved amorial bookplate of Theodore L. Harrison on rear pastedown. Kress C. 1924. NCBEL III 1294. Palgrave II p.677. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
1827122073London: John Murray 1827. First Edition. hardcover. near fine. viii 261pp. 8vo rebound in 3/4 red leather gilt-lettered spine; half-title expertly repaired otherwise fine. London: John Murray 1827. First Edition. Near fine.<br/><br/> A critique of the terms used by French economists Adam Smith Jean-Baptiste Say James Mill David Ricardo J.R. McCulloch and Samuel Bailey followed by the author's classification. Kress C. 1924. NCBEL III 1294. Palgrave II p.677.<br/><br/> John Murray unknown books
180365276The Economics of Population MALTHUS Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population; Or a view of its past and present effects on Human Happiness; With an Inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions. A new edition very much enlarged. London: Printed for J. Johnson. by T. Bensley 1803. Second edition enlarged and revised. Quarto. viii 4 610 pp. Contemporary calf skillfully rebacked to style and with corners renewed. Spine decoratively tooled in gilt compartments with burgundy morocco gilt lettering label. Endpapers renewed. Occasional light foxing. Title-page with publisher's diagonal paper flaw crease. Overall very good. A completely revised and greatly expanded edition of the most influential work on population ever written. Malthus published the first edition of his Essay in 1798 and was apparently unprepared for the torrent of controversy that his ideas provoked. His response to the public outcry was to spend the next five years refining and expanding his theories for this second edition so much so that "in its present shape it may be considered a new work and I should probably have published it as such omitting the few parts of the former which I have retained but that I wished it to form a whole of itself and not to need a continual reference to the other." preface Malthus' basic argument--that population increases geometrically at a greater rate than does the means of subsistence which increases arithmetically--was one of the earliest modern economic and social theories and his contention that it would eventually become necessary for society to impose some form of restraint on over-population provided the premise for heated socio-economic debate for almost two centuries. Kress B4701. See Printing and the Mind of Man 251. HBS 65276. $6500 Printed for J. Johnson...by T. Bensley unknown books
1926WRCLIT66274London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1926. Linen and boards paper label to spine. Facsimile reprint for the Royal Economic Society. Notes by James Bonar. Additional spine label inserted in rear. Toning to edges of boards a bit rubbed and darkened at spine else very good without dust jacket. Macmillan & Co. Ltd. hardcover books
17163115621716. 4 pp. Small splits at old folds old reinforcement to center fold very good. 4 pp. 18th century apothecary's bill; great-grandfather of Malthus. The bill of one John Boundy as issued by Daniel Malthus 1651-1717 apothecary to Queen Anne and George I and great-grandfather of the economist Thomas Robert Malthus. Items charged include various juleps cordials and draughts linseed oil chamomile flowers marshmallow leaves purging potions King's drops quieting powders etc. Attested paid to estate of Mr. Malthus at end by Tho. Graham and docketed paid £58 July 10 1718. With 4 small circular stamps with the motto of the Earl of Fortescue "Forte Scutum Salus Ducum" "A Strong Shield is the Salvation of Leaders" unknown books
181539958London: Printed for John Murray 1815. Third edition. 47 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound with paper strip on spine pale dampstain to upper margin throughout not affecting text. Third edition. 47 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Malthus on the Corn Laws. Kress B 6539; Goldsmith 21179 Printed for John Murray unknown books
182066825"If Only Malthus Instead of Ricardo Had Been the Parent Stem From Which Nineteenth-Century Economics Proceeded What a Much Wiser and Richer Place the World Would be Today" MALTHUS Thomas Robert. Principles of Political Economy. Considered with a View to Their Practical Application. London: John Murray 1820. First edition. Octavo. vi 12-601602. Original boards uncut. With original paper label on spine. Hinges expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Old bookplate from "The Library of Victoria" with no other library markings. A very clean copy internally fine. Very scarce in original boards. Housed in a custom quarter black morocco clamshell gilt-stamped. First edition of Malthus' principal contribution to economic theory. Schumpeter describes Malthus' work in relation to that of his predecessors Adam Smith and Ricardo as follows: "Ricardo's work.started with the Wealth of Nations and recoined the latter's theoretical contents by a method that centered in the concept of value. Exactly the same thing is evidently true of the work of Malthus.except for his theory of saving and investment which on the face of it seems to be Malthus's own all the elements that enter into the analytic apparatus of that work and even its terminological arrangements point to the First book of the Wealth of Nations. Only whereas Ricardo recoined the doctrine of Wealth by means of the labor-quantity theory of value Malthus recoined it by the means of the theory of value that A. Smith actually used namely the theory of supply and demand.whereas Ricardo's analytic apparatus is geared to the problem of distribution.Malthus. geared his apparatus to the analysis of the whole economic process.Therefore Malthus should.stand in the history of analysis not only as the author of a valid alternative to Ricardo's theory but as the sponsor or rather as one of the sponsors of the victorious one." "Although Malthus is best known for the views on population contained in his Essay on Population.there can be no doubt that his importance for economists today rests mainly on his Principles of Political Economy 1820. It was because of the latter work that J. M. Keynes reinstated Malthus as a major figure in modern economic thought". New Palgrave. Cress C577. HBS 66825. $7500 John Murray hardcover books
1820119668London: 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 books
1820242928London: John Murray 1820. First edition. vi 601 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 219 x 132 mm. Bound in later half cloth and marbled boards paper label. Very good. First edition. vi 601 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 219 x 132 mm. First edition of this important classic of economic theory. "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. "One of the founders of modern economics" Malthus was credited by Keynes with framing the theory "that a lack of effective demand can cause economic crises" PMM 251. "In his Principles of Political Economy Malthus was proposing investment in public works 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 IX:70. Goldsmith 22767; Lowndes 1459; Kress C577 John Murray unknown books
182123029Boston: Wells and Lilly 1821. First American edition of this landmark work in political economy. Octavo bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards black leather morocco spine label. In near fine condition. In his Principle of Political Economy Malthus was proposing investment in public works 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. Wells and Lilly hardcover books
