Several essays in political arithmetick ...
Contributors: Starkie, Lé Gendré Pierce, d. 1807 (bookplate)
Publisher: R. Clavel and H. Mortlock
Published: 1699
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Economics; Vital statistics; Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Statistics, Vital
Notes: Each essay has a special t.p.; t.p. of first essay wanting; information supplied from Bibl. nat. cat.

Wing P1937.

Pages 104-139 in French and English, numbered in duplicate.

RBSC copy: Some pages closely trimmed affecting marginal notes and paging.  With the armorial bookplate of Lé Gendré Pierce Starkie.
Table of contents: value: An essay concerning the multiplication of mankind, together with another essay ... concerning the growth of the city of London.  The 3d ed. 1698.-  Further observations upon the Dublin bills; or, Accompts of the houses, hearths, baptisms, and burials in that city.  The 3d ed., corr. and enl.  1698.-  Two essays ... concerning the people, housing, hospitals, &c., of London and Paris.-  Observations upon the cities of London and Rome.  The 2d ed., corr.-  Five essays in political arithmetick, viz: I. Objections from the City of Rey in Persia, and from Mr. Auzout, against two former essays, answered, and that London hath as many people as Paris, Rome, and Rouen put together.  II. A comparison between London and Paris in 14 particulars.  III. Proofs that at London, within its 134 parishes named in the bills of mortality, there live about 696 thousand people.  Iv. An estimate of the people in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Venice, Rome, Dublin, Bristol, and Rouen.  V. Concerning Holland and the rest of the seven United Provinces.-  Political arithmetick; or A discourse concerning the extent and value of lands, people, buildings.