BOSTON STOCK EXCHANGE. OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS
Boston: Pearmain & Brooks, 1895-1901. A collection of 12 broadsheets, each measuring 19 x 12", listing stock prices. Issued by a Boston stock brokerage. Creasing, some closed tears to folds.
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The Financial Problem
Saugerties, NY: 1885. 4to, stapled handwritten essay measuring 8.5 x 11". A essay or speech signed at the end "R.B.J." dated 1885 at Saugerties, NY. An amusing essay in which an unknown author discusses how to finance a young men's association or church society, discussing expenses, events, and how to.....
THE FOLLOWING QUOTATIONS ARE FROM THE OFFICE OF J.B. Sheehan & Co. Correspondents of Metropolitan Stock Exchange, Boston.
Keene, N.H. 1895. Two partially printed broadsides, each measuring 16 x 9", filled out in manuscript with the stock prices of the day and a handwritten report on the bottom. Handwriting faded, creased.
The Gateway To Independence Or 501 Ways Of Annexing the Coin of the Realm Plans Schemes Formulas Money Making Secrets Volume I
Holton, Kansas: The Gossip Printery, 1925. 8vo, 72 pp, tan printed wrappers. A guide to achieving financial success and independence by starting a mail order business. The first and last groups of pages are a guide to selling through the mail, while pages 15-37 print a collection of recipes for.....
NATIONAL MONETARY AND BANKING POLICY QUESTIONNAIRE RELATIVE TO S. RES. 125 (APPROVED AUGUST 4, 1939)
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1940. Stapled pamphlet, 85pp. The entire document consists of economic questions to be asked to various government agencies as part of research and development for a national monetary and banking policy. Ownership inscription of F.T. Ostrander to front cover, with his underlinings and.....
OFFICE OF F.W. Prescott & Co. Bankers and Brokers Ames Building, Boston, Mass. Home Investments
Boston: 1892. Three broadsides, each measuring 10 x 6", listing offerings of bonds and securities investments from a Boston brokerage. Ludlow, VT agents' stamp to corner. Creasing.
An Opportunity To Secure A Fortune Which You Will Never Have Again
Chicago: Ottaway & Co, Printers, [1880]. Large 8vo, 12pp, tan printed wrappers. Promotional pamphlet soliciting agents to sell a new and improved "stove without a stove pipe" patented by Carlton Seaver of Traer, Iowa in 1880. Includes six full page illustrations of the stove. An excellent copy.
Wealth and Pedigree of the Wealthy Citizens of New York City
New York: Published at the Sun Office, 1842. 8vo, 24pp, disbound. "Fourth edition, 'enlarged to ten times the original matter,' of this interesting alphabetical catalogue of 'persons estimated to be worth $100,000 and upwards.' John Jacob Astor---who came over as a penniless German emigrant---is credited with a whopping $14,000,000: 'probably.....
POST-WAR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO FOREIGN NATIONS Statement of BENJAMIN HAGGOTT BECKHART On J.H. Res. 226 Presented to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives Thursday, April 27, 1944
New York: Economists' National Committee on Monetery Policy, [1944]. 11pp. in blue wrappers, staple bound. Statement before the house of representatives by Benjamin Beckhart, Columbia University Professor of Banking and Director of Research at the Chase National Bank. Beckhart offers his opinions on the economic reconstruction of Europe during discussions.....
On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold. The Commercial and Social Consequences Which May Ensue, and the Measures Which It Invites
New York: Appleton, 1859. 8vo, 211pp plus ads, original brown cloth. Economics title. Fading and discoloration to covers, spine lettering faded, chip to upper spine cloth, foxing to pages.
The Money Value Of A Man
New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1946. Hardcover, blue cloth, with original dust jacket, 214 pp. Second printing of revised edition. A study on the monetery value of a life by prominent Jewish American statistician Louis Dublin together with mathematician Alfred Lotka. "Dublin and Lotka developed an economic approach to.....
The Highest Possible Wage and How to Attain It
New York: B.C. Forbes Publishing Co, 1923. First edition. 8vo, 21pp, in cream boards with dust jacket. Scarce title by the founder of Forbes Magazine. Foxing and soiling to book, last two leaves unopened, dust jacket chipped and damp stained.
MINISTRY OF FINANCE. SURVEY DEPARTMENT. EGYPT. THE RAINS OF THE NILE BASIN AND THE NILE FLOOD OF 1906. SURVEY DEPARTMENT PAPER. NO 2
Cairo: National Printing Dept, 1907. 10.5 x 7.25”, beige printed wrappers, 70pp plus illustraions plates. Illustrated with seven color plates, nine fold-out charts, and a fold-out map of the Upper Nile Basin. Library markings to front wrapper, spine covered over with paper repair, a few small tears. Good.
WHAT PHILADELPHIA IS. SKETCH OF THE INDUSTRIES AND LEADING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CITY…WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS HISTORIC PAST.
[Philadelphia]: J.B. Lippincott, 1890. 72pp, plus 16 tissue guarded photographic plates depicting Philadelphia scenes, fold-out map; in half brown morocco with gilt lettering and brown cloth. Library stamps to endpapers, binding worn along corners and edges. Very Good. Issued as a “souvenir of the visit of the International American Conference.....
GREAT FORTUNES AND HOW THEY WERE MADE, Or The Struggles and Triumps of Self Made Men
Cincinnati and Chicago: Hannaford & Company, 1872. 8vo, 633pp, unusual American binding of tooled leather illustrated in gilt, spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers. Gilded age history of great American industrialists and other prominent figures. Hint of toning to pages, rubbing to binding, damp stain to lower margin of text.....
Luxus Und Kapitalismus
Munich: Duncker & Humblot, 1913. 8vo, viii, 220pp, original wrappers. First edition of Sombart's brief analyis of Capitalism, a topic he spend his entire life researching. Very good, minor toning, minor chipping to wrappers.
The Westward Movement of Capital and the Facilities Which St. Louis and Missouri Offer for Its Investment
ST. Louis, MO: Merchant's Exchange, 1890. Octavo, original printed wraps, side stapled, 15 pages. Fourth edition number 19,733 of 50,000 copies with a total issue of all editions of 80,000 copies. “The westward migration of commerce and manufactures, and the advantages which invite them to a permant settlement in Missouri.”.....
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