![[ECONOMICS] 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.](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/2020-06-17/1388041.jpg?itok=JkYEtKTz)
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[ECONOMICS] 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.
Washington City [i.e. Georgetown]: Robert Chew Weightman, 1809. First American edition stated, from the 3rd London edition (this a variant imprint not mentioning J. Milligan). Two volumes, original marbled calf, all edges speckled. 8 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (21 x 12 cm); xvi, 510, xxxiv pp.; viii, 542 pp. Rubbed, joints on the first volume especially frail, some moderate foxing. John Wheelock's copy with his signatures in both volumes, dated September 21st, 1812, this likely Washington's correspondent, the second President of Dartmouth College.
The foundational text of modern economics and population theory. See Garrison-Morton 1693; PMM 251 (1803 edition).
C From the Collection of Quentin Keynes; Gift to his American doctor
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