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Grand in-8, demi-chagrin de l'époque, dos lisse orné, lx, 684, (1) p., rousseurs, cachets, portrait frontispice. L'une des éditions anciennes de référence. Mors fendus.
New Turkish Original bdg. HC. 4to. (29 x 21 cm). In Turkish. [xxx], 592, [1] p., examples of Ottoman demographic documents (Defter in romanized Ottoman Turkish with facsimile in Ottoman Turkish.). Ünye nüfus defteri, (1834). Demographic registers of Ottoman Ünye (district of Ordu city) in 1834, after 3 years later from the first census in the period of Sultan Mahmud II. A very heavy volume.
200 p. Loss bottom margin corner of title page. Lacks fly leaves. Page 197 torn without loss. Very age stained. Early pencil manuscript ownership of Ms. Eliza Johnson, Derby, CT. 12mo. 185 mm. Original worn leather binding. Title continues: "Part I. Containing A History of The Town Of East Haven. 1644-1800. Part II. Containing An Account Of The Names, Marriages, And Births. 1644-1800. Part III. Containing An Account Of The Deaths In The Families Named In The Second Part From The Year 1647 To The End Of The Year 1823." Includes interesting details about early East Haven Connecticut: boundaries; iron-works and mills; land divisions; controversies with New-Haven and Branford; town charters; ecclesiastisal affairs; schools; population and taxes; losses by war; natural history and curiosities; roads and public lands; etc. Howes D-387; S&S/AI 15987. Hardbound. Good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 6
147 pages. Pulling no punches, author documents the astonishing transformation, since 1967, of the population mix in what once was known as English Canada. "Failing the emergence of a politician or politicians who will speak for English Canada, only massive public protest will change the course of events." Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A worthy reading copy. Book
Outer dimensions: 10.75" x 14.5". Counties individually colored. Clean and unmarked with light wear. An attractive vintage copy. Bonus: includes separate list of Louisiana counties and cities/towns, complete with their (1889) populations. Book
289 pages. Bibliography, glossary and index. Footnotes. Charts, maps and diagrams. Topics include: English Migration; Folk Architecture in Trinity Bay; Peopling of Central Bonavista Bay; Sealing and the spread of settlement in Northeastern Newfoundland; Initial permanent settlement in the Strait of Belle Isle; Ethnic diversity and settler location on the Eastern Lower North Shore of Quebec; Highlands Scots Migration to Southwestern Newfoundland; Settlers and Traders in Western Newfoundland. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Pages 207-312 plus 6 pages of ads. Maps. Black and white photos. Contents include: An Expedition to the Coral Reefs of Torres Straits; The Cellular basis of Heredity and Development (II); The Decreasing Population of France; The Rise of a New Profession - The Age of Administration; The Place of Illustration in Book-making; Determining Educational Values; A League of Peace; Nice one-page illustrated ads for Thomas Dunham Company sidecars for motorcycles, and Reading Standard (RS) Motorcyles. Front cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Some pages unopened. A sound working copy. Magazine
171 pages. Contents include: The Polar Oceans Progarm of the Alaska SAR Facility; Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System Training Requirements in Arctic Canada; Topographic Data and Satellite Spectral Response in Subarctic High-Relief Terrain Analysis; Monitoring the Water Bodies of the Mackenzie Delta by Remote Sensing Methods; Operational Remote Sensing of Sea Ice; Remote Sensing of the Sea Surface Temperatures for Aquaculture Planning in Northern Norway; Remote Sensing of Permafrost by Ground-Penetrating radar at Two Airports in Arctic Canada; Mapping Muskox Habitat in the Canadian High Arctic with SPOT Satellite Data; Calibration of Aerial Thermal Infrared Imagery for Walrus Population Assessment; Detection and Classification of Muskox Habitat on Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Data; An Assessment of Bison Habitat in the Mills/Mink Lakes area, Northwest Territories; Preliminary Geologic Interpretation of SAR Data, Yellowknife-Hearne Lake Area; Monitoring Natural Vegetation in Southern Greenland Using NOAA AVHRR and Field Measurements; Satellite Geological Mapping of the Yellowknife Volcanic Belt; Measuring Climatc State Variables from SAR images of Sea Ice - The SIMS SAR validation site in Lancaster Sound; The Role of Imaging Radar in the Development of the Canadian Arctic - Background and applications; The Use of AVHRR Thermal infrared imagery to determine sea ice thickness withing the Chukchi Polyna; In Situ Measurements of Micro-Scale Surface Roughness of Sea Ice; Derivation of Snow Water Equivalent in Boreal Forests Using Microwave Radiometry; Lake and River Ice Investigations in Northern Manitoba using airborne SAR Imagery; Location and Areal Extent of Polynyas in the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
100 pages. Features: nice color photo ad for the 1970 Olds Cutlass Supreme; The Rage of Women - Half our population underpaid, barred from major jobs and often mocked; Vietnamese boy Pham Van Quan is flown to Philadelphia for heart surgery; Wonderful color Campbell's soup ad; My Brother Lyndon Johnson - Part II by Sam Houston Johnson; Great color photo centerfold featuring the line of Polaroid cameras; Colour photo ad for General Electric flash cubes; Barbara Streisand - article with photos; A Killing Shame - U.S. gas and germ weapons violate treaties; Great colour photo ad for the 1970 Buick; Grambling College - where football stars are made - article with photos; The Look All America 1969 College Football selections; A Bill to Kill Foundations; The One Sensible Way to Diet, by Roland H. Berg; Who is the Man in the House? - Russell Baker writes about Richard Nixon; Princess Grace turns 40 - article with photos; Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Please note: pages 35-36 missing. They appear to have contained ads. Still a worthy copy. Magazine
Features: Milt Bryan's Adventures on the Santa Fe Trail; Lonely are the Graves - The Bundy Avant Story - Part I - New Mexico in the days when the thin population was intent on bettering itself; Lost Soldiers' Mine - Somewhere in the Coquille Mountains is a very cold trail to a very real gold vein!; Killers' Trail of Thread - the Green DeWitt Colony in the Mexican province of Texas-Coahuila; The "Coffee" Woman - sequel to "Bloodshed in Kansas" in the April issue; Shingle Mill Country - Van Buren County, Arkansas; Infidelity at Old Fort Laramie; Zane Grey's mysterious guide; The Soldier's Farewell - the guerilla war on the Mexican border in 1915; One Man's Rubble is another man's Gold - men with strong backs headed for San Francisco after it burned in 1906; Lost Mines of Mexico. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
104 pages. Cover photo of Int. Fd. Ch. Martmoor Tuppy Flakers. Features: Blue Ribbon Award Winners; Producing Sires, 1961-61 (cont'd); Your own strain of dogs, Part II; Canadian Corner; Dog Health; Delaware-Delaware Valley Assoc. holds two judge's schools; Rabbit dogs or ???; The population dynamics of the Cottontail rabbit; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
In-12, broché, couverture papier moderne, 12,186, (2) p., qqs mouill. claires et rouss. "Morale sociale. Calcul sur la vie humaine... L'esclavage, le célibat et le luxe sont condamnés. Éloge de l'agriculture…" (Cf. longue analyse in INED, n° 540). Avocat, l'auteur devint président à la Cour impériale de Paris, et l'un des rédacteurs du code criminel. (Colon, 'Siècle des Lumières', 58:517). Bon exemplaire, intérieur frais, grand de marges.
In-12, broché, couverture de papier marbrée post., tranches mouchetées, 12, 186, (2) p. "Morale sociale. Calcul sur la vie humaine... L'esclavage, le célibat et le luxe sont condamnés. Éloge de l'agriculture…" (Cf. longue analyse in INED, n° 540). Avocat, l'auteur devint président à la Cour impériale de Paris, et l'un des rédacteurs du code criminel. (Colon, 'Siècle des Lumières', 58:517). Bon exemplaire, intérieur frais, grand de marges.
In-12, broché, couverture papier gris d'origine, 58 pp. Edition originale. "Texte démographique dans lequel l'auteur soutient le devoir politique de la procréation, car la population est nécessaire à l'Etat (…). Il propose de créer un impôt, qu'il appelle "tribut de tolérance", sur les célibataires, tant hommes que femmes, divisés en six classes selon leur fortune [et] propose de redistribuer le montant de cet impôt aux familles nombreuses. Statistiques chiffrées des recettes, par classe imposable". (INED, n° 3579). ("Bibliographie clérico-galante", p. 141). Exemplaire non rogné.
In-12, demi-percaline de l’époque, titre doré, xviii, 432, (2) p. Edition originale et unique. Journaliste, député et futur ministre, Yves Guyot dresse un réquisitoire de la colonisation, sur la base d’arguments économiques, démographiques mais aussi moraux. Rejoignant les arguments des radicaux, il dénonce les exactions des colons et de l’administration à l’égard des indigènes et la force employée comme moyen de civilisation. Plusieurs tableaux statistiques dont 2 dépliants hors texte et une carte. Envoi autographe signé (légèrement rogné à la reliure). Très bon exemplaire.
In-8, demi-maroquin brun, dos à nerfs filetés et soulignés de filets à froid, titre doré, daté en pied (rel. Petit), xi, 498 p. Edition originale et unique de cet ouvrage traduit par le colonel Jean-Baptiste-François Baille. Importante étude, appuyée sur de nombreuses statistiques : l'Angleterre agricole, industrielle et commerciale. Les productions, la population, coût de la vie, fiscalité, émigration, empire colonial, énergie, les femmes dans l'industrie, etc., etc. Appendice statistique. Index. Bel exemplaire, très frais, très bien relié à l'époque par Petit.
In-12, demi-chagrin rouge de l'époque, dos à 4 faux-nerfs filetés or, orné d'un riche décor de compartiments aux petits fers, filets et roulettes dorés, vii, 411 p. Edition originale de ce rapport d'enquête réalisée à la demande de l'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques sur la condition des "classes rurales". L'enquête avait été commissionnée en réponse à la grave crise des subsistances qui venait de secouer la France. Races de bétail - Produits et machines agricoles - Produits forestiers - Les ouvriers européens - Liberté commerciale - Dénombrement de la population - etc. Economiste et homme politique, Léonce de Lavergne avait été élu à l'Académie en 1855. (Say &Chailley, II, p. 120). Bel exemplaire.
Grand in-8, cartonnage éditeur, 358 p. Première traduction intégrale, originale et commentée de "L'Ordre divin de 1741", "le premier grand traité de démographie en langue allemande".
First edition, 8vo, 2 vols., 8pp. publisher's catalogue tipped in before title, viii, 540; iv, 576pp., ownership inscription at head of title "Thomas Pearson, 1873.", 9 engraved plates, original boards, uncut, head of spines chipped original printed labels on spines. Amongst the numerous subjects covered are Astronomy, Adam Smith's Theory, Chemistry, Chronology, Electricity, Fluxions, Galvanism, Geography, Hydraulics, Optical Instruments, Mathematics, Mechanics, Political Economy, Navigation, Philosophy, Malthus on Population, Surveying, Telescopes and Zoology.
48 pages. The result of a study of mountain slopes and their potential for providing for human settlement. It grew out of a belief that mountain slopes could be developed into an exhilarating and satisfying environment in which to live, as well as from the recognition of a need to relieve population pressures on agricultural flatlands through the development of mountainous areas. Applies in particular to British Columbia, Canada. Illustrated. Contents include: Climate; Mountain Hazards; Human Attitudes to Physical Setting; Financing Transportation and Pedestrian Movement; Landscaping and Design; Slope Designation, Platform Creation and Construction; Mount Ekos - Sketch of a Prototype. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Book
3 volumes in-8, reliure éditeur, XII, 638 p., 645 p. et VI, 655 p. Intégralité du rapport d'enquête sur l''état moral et matériel' des populations agricoles de la France, suite à la mission dont l'auteur avait été chargé par l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques. Reprint. Epuisé. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf.
Gift inscription from author to scholar Fergus Millar on ffep. Slight creasing to front wrap. ; The aim of this study is to analyse the population of Naples during a given period and to examine the bilingualism which existed. ; Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum, 102; 236 pages; Signed by Author
248 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrated in black and white with one photographic plate. "The siege of Paris in the autumn and winter of 1870-1 was the last full-scale siege of a European capital, the first occasion of the indiscriminate bombardment of a civilian population, the source of immense suffering and hardship, and the origin of a division in the French nation which has still not been healed." - from Preface. Hard cover library binding with usual library markings. Moderate wear. Sound working copy. Book
2 volumes in-8, cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette imprimée, xx, 1032 p. (pagination continue), tableau généalogique dépliant et planches de fac-similés hors texte. L'édition de référence. La première partie contient des études sur Boisguilbert par : A. Sauvy, J. Spengler, J. Bast, L. Salleron, J. Féry, A. Kubota, J. Molinier et S. McDonald ; suivis d'une biographie, correspondance de Boisguilbert et bibliographie par Jacqueline Hecht. La seconde renferme les oeuvres de Boisguilbert, manuscrits inédits et édition critique des oeuvres imprimées. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf, relié.
In-8, broché, couverture de papier vert olive moderne, x, 416 p., rousseurs et brunissures soutenues. Édition originale. "Réflexions politiques, économiques, religieuses, morales et sociales. Sur le Mariage (loi sur le divorce). (...) Sur l'économie et le commerce: inutilité du luxe (...); projet de mettre à la disposition des indigents, pour la culture du blé, quelques terres inemployées. Projets pour le développement de l'agriculture et du commerce" (INED, 1309). Contient également une "diatribe" (p. 204 et s.) contre les martinistes et les illuminés. (Monglond, III, 299. Tourneux, I, 42). Exemplaire de travail.
