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8vo. 3 vols. (4), XLVII, (1), 468 pp. (6), 533, (1) pp. (4), 569, (1) pp. With numerous maps (3 folding in colour at end of volume 1) and tables (3 folding in volume 2, 1 folding in volume 3). Contemporary half calf over green marbled boards with giltstamped spines. Marbled endpapers. First edition. Presentation copy for Lucien March, inscribed by the author on the half-title of vol. 1. - Now-classic historical and statistical studies on French and comparative population: this is among the major achievements of the author hailed as "the father of modern economic history in France"; its publication was "an even more important event in historiography" than the publication of his voluminous history of the working classes. "For Levasseur, the object of statistics as a science was to make numerical data available to historians and economists. Indeed, he believed that statistics had become an indispensable tool for the historian". - A fine set. - Einaudi 3379. IESS IX, 261.