- Plates in very fine condition: some plates w. sl. offsetting from flimsies in margins; 3x portrait reattached; 1x tear professionally restored. Bindings sl. worn along edges; backstrips sl. faded. A very good/ fine set.
= LARGE PAPER COPY w. an extra decorative border around the portraits printed from a different plate. Cohen/ De Ricci p.325f: "Mais comme sur les 600 portraits qui forment ce recueil il y en a une centaine de forts intéressants et d'une très belle exécution (voir celui de Bossuet, par exemple), cet ouvrage a du prix et se vend cher, lorsque les épreuves sont belles. Les épreuves de premier tirage auraient seules l'adresse d'Odieuvre. Il existe des exemplaires en grand papier, avec des entourages aux portraits." A biographical lexicon of important sovereigns, scholars and artists in European history. Rare.
- Owner's entry on verso of both covers; first few lvs. sl. frayed; sl. wormholed/ waterst. in margin. Vellum w. worn spots/ sl. soiled.
= Rare, not in Worldcat. BWPGN II, p.647f.
- Sl. foxed. Covers worn. = Goldsmiths' 25547; cf. Einaudi 1142.
Idem. Cottage Economy: containing information relative to the brewing of Beer, making of Bread, keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry and Rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family. Ibid., C. Clement, 1822, "stereotype edition", IV,(2),207p., contemp. boards.
- Lacks the plate; index lvs. bound in reverse order. Frontcover loose; backstrip worn off.
= Originally published in installments. Goldsmiths' 23476; British Bee Books 189; not in Einaudi.
AND 2 others by the same, i.a. COBBETT'S POOR MAN'S FRIEND: or, Useful Information and Advice for the Working Classes; in a Series of Letters, addressed to the Working Classes of Preston (London, n.d., 5 parts in 1 vol., modern cl.).
- Professionaly rebacked.
= Einaudi 2334; Goldsmiths' 10640; Kress 6730. Seminal work on the regulation of commerce, opposing the free trade policy advocated by the Physiocrats.
- Both vols. owner's stamp on title-p. Vol. 1 lower joint splitting. = Einaudi 2635; Goldsmiths' 23169.
- Both vols. lack vol. number piece. Otherwise a fine set.
= Einaudi 3307; Goldsmiths' 10270; cf. Kress 6475. The first 8vo edition, published simultaneously with the 4to edition.
Mably, G. l'abbé de. Doutes proposés aux Philosophes Économistes sur l'Ordre Naturel et Essentiel des Sociétés Politiques. The Hague, Nyon/ Veuve Durand, 1768, VIII,316p., contemp. gilt calf w. mor. letterpiece.
= Einaudi 3555; Kress 6576; not in Goldsmiths'.
- Several leaves (incl. 2 title-p.) soiled/ (water)stained; 1 preliminary and 2 final leaves loose. Paper over frontcover worn and paper over backcover lacking; backstrip partly dam.
= One more part was published (i.a. in 1768 by Gerrit Bom), but is usually not bound with the preceding parts in 18th cent. eds. Hoogendoorn, Lintz02-1, 02-2 and 02-3/2; Bierens de Haan 2773; cf. The Children's World of Learning 2315 and 2316 (other edition); BNK 484 (the first part only): "(...) bedoeld voor aanstaande klerken. (...) Geen eerste druk bekend (...)".
- Owner's entry on title-p.; trifle foxed. Joints splitting; corners showing.
= Einaudi 3668; Goldsmiths' 18640; Kress B.4701; cf. PMM 251 (1st ed., 1798): "The central idea of the essay - and the hub of Malthusian theory - was a simple one. The population of a community, Malthus suggested, increases geometrically, while food supplies increase only arithmetically. If the natural increase in population occurs the food supply becomes insufficient and the size of the population is checked by 'misery' - that is the poorest sections of the community suffer disease and famine. Malthus recognized two other possible checks to population expansion: first 'vice' - that is, homosexuality, prostitution and abortion (all totally unacceptable to Malthus); and second 'moral restraint' - the voluntary limitation of the production of children by the postponement of marriage. This was the solution to the population problem that Malthus advocated. The Essay was highly influential in the progress of thought in early nineneenth-century Europe". Six different editions were printed during Malthus' lifetime. From the library of Arnold Heertje, with his bookplate on upper pastedown.
- Both vols. owner's stamp on title-p.; occas. trifle foxed/ yellowed.
= First French edition of Malthus' Principles of Political Economy, published in the same year as the original English edition. Goldsmiths 22768; cf. Einaudi 3679 (2nd French ed., 1846).
Say, J.-B. Traité d'Économie Politique, ou simple exposition de la manière dont se forme, se distribuent et se consomment les richesses (...). Ibid., Rapilly, 1826, 5th enl. ed., 3 vols., (4),CVIII,385; (4),III,(1),408; (4),III,(1),435p., bound unif. w. the above (similar defects).
= Cf. Einaudi 5119/ 5120; Goldsmiths 24807.
- Last blank and free endpaper cut out; year "1823" in pen and col. ink on title-p.; occas. trifle foxed. Binding chafed; corners showing.
= First French translation of the major work of James Mill (father of John Stuart Mill), first published in English in 1821. PMM 345; Goldsmiths' 23754; cf. Einaudi 3892. "(...) his major philosophical work, Elements of Political Economy, followed up Ricardo's views and laid the foundations of the 'philosophic radicalism' which became the gospel of liberal politicians in the mid-nineteenth century." (PMM).