The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography

London: J. Johnson, 1806. In two volumes. Third edition. 8vo. 505, (60) (index), 559 pp. Contemporary brown morocco, worn, rebacked, gilt school-gift stamp to both front boards; each volume with ex-libris slip of McGeorge Bundy signed by Endicott Peabody. Scattered light foxing.

Third edition of Malthus's classic work on population, much enlarged from the first edition of 1798.

From the library of McGeorge Bundy (1919-1996), gifted to him in recognition of the Charles Lanier Appleton prize while at Groton, signed by school President Endicott Peabody (1857-1944).

Part of a family with roots in education and public service, McGeorge Bundy served as a young intelligence officer in World War II. After graduate work, he became a professor of Government at Harvard, and later served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences there. From 1961-66 he was the National Security Advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He was involved in many of that era’s major foreign policy decisions and controversies, including the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the sharply increasing U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam. From 1966 to 1979 he served as president of the Ford Foundation, where his team led work supporting civil rights, the national expansion of public television, environmental action, ethical investing, and international development and cooperation. As professor of history at New York University from 1979 until his death in 1996, he studied and wrote about the history of nuclear weapons, becoming a forceful advocate for global arms control.