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Essay on the Principles of Population: third edition, First two volume edition including revisions and replies to Mathus s critics and effectively replacing chapters 4 to 6 reflecting that some of the calculations on marriages and births in these chapterswere inaccurate An important edition, refining the principles to reflect the debate. Half leather on marbled boards. Xvi, 505, (lx); vii, 559. 8v. Bindings a little worn but VG
Reply to the essay on population: First edition. Hazlitt’s virulent response to the Essay. Also in half leather on marbled boards, binding worn . With the bookplate of Hutches Trower (1777-1833), political economist Of Shalford and correspondent of David ricardo, a friend of Malthus to the front pastedown.
Housed in a handsome custom clamshell box in Quarter leather with raised bands and gilt titles. Label to front of box indicating that this was a retirement gift from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Witwatersrand to Professor Ludwig Maurits Lachmann a leadingGerman economist, economic theorist and important contributor to the Austrian School of Economics.
An important set presented well