Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
[Economics] Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766-1834)
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: Printed & Published by Roger Chew Weightman, 1809.

First American edition, two octavo volumes; half-titles present in both volumes; the set bound in full contemporary uniform marbled sheepskin, spines a bit rough, front board of first volume detached, 8 1/4 x 5 in. (2)