A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> edition of An Essay on the Principle of Population as <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Thomas%20Malthus&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Thomas Malthus</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Thomas Malthus (English).</li><li>An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it might occasion.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Printed for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard, by T. Bensley,&nbsp;1807.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Fourth edition.</li><li>Contemporary mottled calf, marbled edges.</li></ul> Malthus is as controversial as he is influential. "The central idea of the essay ... was a simple one. The population of a community ... 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 heckled by 'misery'" (PMM).

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