1809 An Essay on the Principle of Population by T.R. Malthus

Description: 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, By T.R. Malthus, Volume II ONLY, First American, from the Third London Edition. Printed and Published by Roger Chew Weightman, Washington City, 1809, 542 pp, full original leather, 8.5 x 5.5”, 8vo. In fair condition. Volume II only. Moderate wear to extremities with heavy scuffing to surface of leather. Pitting and abrasions to boards with fragile front joint. Front board is quite tender. Worming to rear board a top edges. Desiccated spine with heavy loss of leather. Red rot present. Chipping to spine ends with creasing to label. Moyer’s Book Barn Strasburg, PA seller’s ticket on fly at gutter. Front gutter quite tender. Previous bookseller’s notations on fly. Light toning throughout with scattered foxing present. 288-289, 442-443, 522-523 pp have dried flowers and leaves loosely laid-in. Binding remains intact. Free of known marginalia. Please see photos. This cornerstone of modern economics examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources, and argues that checks in the form of poverty, disease, and starvation are necessary to keep societies from moving beyond their means of subsistence. The first edition (published anonymously) was 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 during the early 19th-century in Europe. Both Darwin and Wallace clearly acknowledged Malthus as a source of the idea for the struggle of existence. Quite scarce. RAREA1809BPQM

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