Wallace Robert 1697 1771 (4 results)
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Facsimile Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked leatherette. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 406, 39 pages ; 22 cm. Notes: Reprint of the 1761 ed. and 1746 ed., respectively. Subjects: Natural theology…; Early works to 1900; Natural theology ; Early works to 1800. 1 Kg.
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Facsimile Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked leatherette. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 406, 39 pages ; 22 cm. Notes: Reprint of the 1761 ed. and 1746 ed., respectively. Subjects: Natural theology…; Early works to 1900; Natural theology ; Early works to 1800. 1 Kg.
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Essai sur la différence du nombre des hommes dans les tems anciens et modernes, dans lequel on établit qu'il étoit plus considérable dans l'antiquité. Traduit de l'Anglois de M.R. Wallace, Chape;ain de S.M.B. & Membre de la Société Philosophique d?Edimbourg. Par M. de Joncourt, Professeur de langues etrangeres à Paris.
WALLACE, Robert (1697-1771). JONCOURT, Elie de (1700?-1770?), translator.
Published by A Londres [ie Paris]. 1754. ?Londres?, ie Paris, 1754., 1754
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Add to basketFirst Edition in French. in contemporary polished calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt, edges red, marbled endpapers: a very good, crisp copy. Small 8vo, pp. [ii], ii, ii, 292, several tables in text, An excellent, fresh copy of the first French translation of Wallace?s Dissertation on the numbers… of mankind in antient and modern times, first published in Edinburgh in 1753. ?An acute and suggestive contribution to economics? (Alexander Gordon in DNB), the work included a vigorous though unsuccessful attack on Hume?s Political Discourses, notably on his chapter on the ?Populousness of Ancient Nations? This French translation was made under the supervision of Montesquieu. A further English edition was published with a prefatory memoir in 1809. ESTC n7385; Cioranescu 34599; Chuo University, David Hume and the eighteenth century British thought, 222.
Published by Edinburgh: Printed for G.Hamilton and J.Balfour, 1753., 1753
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp. iv, 331. contemporary sprinkled calf (library bookplate, small rubberstamp & inked numbers in lower margin of title, another rubberstamp at end of text, small chip & neat paper label at foot of spine, lacking lettering piece but otherwise quite a nice copy). First Edition. T…he Reverend Dr. Wallace of Edinburgh is remembered chiefly for his insightful and suggestive contributions to the discussion of population problems and for the influence which he exerted upon Malthus. According to Hazlitt (The Spirit of the Age), "both the principle of the necessary increase of the population beyond the means of subsistence, and the application of that principle as a final obstacle to all Utopian perfectibility schemes, are borrowed by Mr. Malthus from Wallace's work." The Dissertation On The Numbers Of Mankind contains the substance of a paper read before the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh sometime before 1745. It is considerably expanded by a lengthy appendix, in which Wallace vigorously undertakes to refute the contentions of Hume as expounded in the chapter on the Populousness of Ancient Nations in his Political Discourses (1752). Goldsmiths'8782. Higgs 619. Jessop p. 52. Kress 5318.
