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- Lot 506
Adriano BALBI - Autograph letter signed, in French, to Auguste Wahlen, "chevalier de plusieurs ordres, librairie éditeur". Milan, March 17 [ca 1841 ?] Bifeuillet, 20.5 x 13 cm, 3 pp. of text and 1 p. with address, postmarks and red wax armorial seal. Interesting letter from the Venetian geographer Balbi (1782-1848), who worked for a long time in Paris and then was called as an adviser in geography and statistics by the Austrian government in Vienna, where he died. He is concerned about a delay in the publication of his manuscript by the Brussels publisher Wahlen. It is probably the new edition of the "Essay on the Principle of Population" by Thomas Robert Maltus, in the translation by P. and G. Prévost, published by Wahlen in Brussels in 1841. This corrected edition was augmented with ethnographic and political tables of the population of the globe after Balbi and Omalius d'Halloy. Hole of +- 1 x 1,5 cm due to the opening (fragment stuck to the wax seal).
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