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A Bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the Bills of Mortality by John Graunt F.R.S
by Keynes, G.L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in sunned dustwrapper with a small tear to the rear panel
- ISBN 10
- 0198181442
- ISBN 13
- 9780198181446
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About This Item
Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1971. Cloth, 4to,. xiii, 103 pp, plates. An excellent bibliography of the man described as "the father of modern economics" but who "also appears as cabin boy on an English merchantman, as pedlar of sham jewellery in France, as naval cadet, as medical student in the Netherlands and in Paris, as reader of music at Gresham College, as Professor of Anatomy at Oxford, as Fellow of the Royal Society, as educationist, inventor, Latin versifier, and ship builder, as physician to Cromwell's army in Ireland, as surveyor and cartographer of Ireland, and in the midst of all this as a man becoming ever more involved in administration, finance and politics." - Preface. The bibliography appends Aubrey's and Evelyn's accounts of Petty, and Aubrey's account of Graunt. Fine in sunned dustwrapper with a small tear to the rear panel.
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-30039
- Title
- A Bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the Bills of Mortality by John Graunt F.R.S
- Author
- Keynes, G.L
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, 4to,
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in sunned dustwrapper with a small tear to the rear panel
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0198181442
- ISBN 13
- 9780198181446
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1971
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1971
- Pages
- xiii, 103 pp, plates
- Keywords
- william petty john graunt fellow royal society FRS political economy physician statisticians 17th seventeenth science education economics irish survey cartography 0198181442
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