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SADLER ( Michael T

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SADLER ( Michael T

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
SADLER ( Michael T. ). The law of population : a treatise, in six books ; in disproof of the superfecundity of human beings, and developing the real principle of their increase. John Murray, 1830FIRST EDITION, pages xvi, 639, (1) : xii, 690, wiithout the half-titles, 2 vols, 8vo, pleasantly bound in recent cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt, top edges gilt : with some neat and legible marginal notes in a contemporary hand mainly in the first third of the first volume : a very good and not unattractive copy of a work that has become rare in commerce. The most ambitious work of this social reformer and political economist (1780-1835). Although he was a man much respected for his tireless efforts towards Factory Reform, and usually noted for his eloquence, this work was not well received, not only because of flaws in its arguments, but also because of its labourious length. Over 100 statistical tables are included. Malthus called it "a strange work", but it may have prompted him into publishing his Summary View of the Principle of Population in the same year. Sadler had his supporters and should be noted as, probably, the last of the contemporary anti-Malthusian writers.(2)ECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SOCIOLOGY; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;