[Rarebooks] FS: French trans. of Wallace's dissertation on world population. Amsterdam: 1769

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Wallace, Robert. DISSERTATION HISTORIQUE ET POLITIQUE SUR LA POPULATION DES ANCIENS TEMS, Comparee avec Celle du Notre, dans Laquelle on Prouve Qu'elle A Ete Plus Grande Autrefois Qu'elle ne l'Est de Nos Jours. On y a Joint Plusieurs Observations sur le Meme Sujet, & Quelques Remarques sur le Discours Politique de M. Hume... Traduite de l'Anglois par M. E. Amsterdam: Rozet. 1769. First edition of this French translation. iv,380pp. Cont. mottled calf, elaborately gilt spine (a bit rubbed), brown calf spine label. Some worming at upper fore-corner of front endpaper and first 3 leaves, text unaffected. Faded stain at top blank margin of final 3 leaves.	$450.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first edition of Marc-Antoine Eidous's translation of Wallace's "Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind," which had previously been translated by Joncourt in 1754. Goldsmiths' 10536. Kress 6693.


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