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. In Two Volumes. First American from the Third London Edition

Georgetown, J. Milligan, 1809. First American edition. Hardcover. Index at the end of the first volume. The signatures of three early owners of the book appear on the endpapers. Both volumes are internally complete and firm, but the backstrips of both volumes are perished, and the covers of volume one are loose while the front cover of volume two is detached and the back cover is missing. Both volumes have major damp stains: in volume one it affects the bottom inside quadrant of the page of the first third of the book, while in volume two it affects the outside edge of the last quarter of the book. Two volumes, separately paged. A binding copy of the first American edition of a landmark book in the history of social thought. .

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