Author: Malthus, Thomas Robert.
Title: Essai sur le principe de population.
Description: Paris, Guillaumin, 1945. LX,687 pp 1 engr. H.leather, top of spine dam.The book Essay on the Principle of Population (original title An Essay on the Principle of Population) was first published anonymously in 1798 by the publisher J. Johnson in London1. The author was quickly identified as the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus. Although not the first book on population, it is considered the most important of its time. Its 6th edition would have strongly influenced Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in their conception of the theory of natural selection. Malthus's book launched the debate on the true size of the population in Britain and influenced the realization of the Census Act of 1800, which carried out a national census in England, Wales and Scotland, from 1801 until now. In 1803 Malthus published a second edition, a major revision of the first. Its final version, the 6th, was published in 1826. In 1830 Malthus published a short version as A Summary View on the Principle of Population, which includes remarks on the criticisms made of the main work, 32 years after the first edition.

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