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MOHEAU. Recherches et considérations sur la population de la France.
A Paris, Chez Moutard, 1778. With 1 folding table and many tables in the text. 2 parts in 1 volume.xv, (1, corrections & additions), 280, 157, (4, approbation, privilège, corrections & additions du Tome II), (1, blank) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, marbled edges, very lightly rubbed. Kress B.135; Goldsmiths 11690; Einaudi 3956 (incomplete copy, lacking the first 280 pages with the tables); INED 3221; Leblanc 194. First edition. This statistical writer of the 18th century scarcely received at the time due acknowledgement of his deserts. Spengler, in his French predecessors of Malthus, writes: 'Of the eighteenth-century writers on population none was more competent and judicious than M. Moheau.' This, his most famous work, was even attributed to A.J.B.R.A. de Montyon, whose secretary he was. The first part of this work, which was inspired by Messance's earlier study and which embodied some of Messance's statistical data, is a statistical description of the population of France, while the second part deals with the analysis of the factors that influence population growth. For a complete account of Moheau's work see Spengler's "Moheau, Prophet of Depopulation" in the Journal of Political Economy, XLVII (1939), pp. 648-677. McCulloch in his Literature of Political Economy, speaks highly of it, moreover recommending the author's books as a model for similar work (Palgrave, ii, p. 779).    
Price: EUR 2800   Book number: 16608

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