Recherches statistiques sur la ville de Paris et le département de la seine. Recueil de tableaux dressés et réunis d'après les ordres de monsieur le Comte de Chabrol, conseiller d'état, préfet du département.

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First edition of the first of Fourier's demographic surveys of Paris, giving the most detailed to date account up to that point of the Parisian population. Fourier was appointed director of the Bureau of Statistics of the department of the Seine by his former pupil Chabrol de Volvic, the prefect of the department. His demographic surveys of Paris and its environs, published in a regular series, showed how the population was structured by age and mortality rates among these ages. The tables include details on meteorology, population movements, public assistance, deaths, agriculture, the fine arts, industry, and commerce. Einaudi 1961; Kress 3488; Westergaard, Contributions to the History of Statistics, pp. 113-6. Octavo (199 x 124 mm). Contemporary black straight-grain sheep by P. Purgold (stamped in gilt to spine), smooth spine gilt in compartments, gilt rule border to covers, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 63 statistical tables on 38 folding plates. Very minor bumping, very light foxing at beginning and end, short closed tear at head of pp. ix/x (not into text), else a fresh clean copy. Seller Inventory # 166040

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