PETTY, William (1623-1687). Several Essays in Political Arithmetick. London: Robert Clavel and Henry Mortlock, 1699. 8° (185 x 111mm). (A little spotting.) Contemporary calf (heavily rubbed, joints slightly split). Provenance: Dauntesey, Agecroft Hall (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this posthumous collection of the author's essays. 'By abstracting numbers and using these as the basis of calculation, whether of profit and loss in his own Irish ironworks or English trades and industries, he constructed the method known as political arithmetic' (ODNB). UNCOMMON. Garrison-Morton 1688; Keynes Petty 46; Norman 1688; Wing P-1937.
PETTY, William (1623-1687). Several Essays in Political Arithmetick. London: Robert Clavel and Henry Mortlock, 1699. 8° (185 x 111mm). (A little spotting.) Contemporary calf (heavily rubbed, joints slightly split). Provenance: Dauntesey, Agecroft Hall (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this posthumous collection of the author's essays. 'By abstracting numbers and using these as the basis of calculation, whether of profit and loss in his own Irish ironworks or English trades and industries, he constructed the method known as political arithmetic' (ODNB). UNCOMMON. Garrison-Morton 1688; Keynes Petty 46; Norman 1688; Wing P-1937.
