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Stable Money Association gift bookplate inside front board is signed by Irving Fisher, James Rand, Jr., and Frederic A. Delano. Delano [1863-1953] was uncle to FDR, President of the Stable Money Association and was appointed to serve on the first Board of the Federal Reserve by Woodrow Wilson. James Rand Jr. [1886-1968] was Chairman of the Committee For the Nation and a prominent American businessman. This copy inscribed to Ethan Bates Stanley who was President of the American Laundry Machinery Company. pp. [vi], vii-xxiii, 484. Selected bibliography. Index. Extensive footnotes. "The present book is intended to be not so much a history of [monetary] catastrophes, due to unstable money and endured by unsuspecting millions subject to the money illusion, but rather a history of the efforts of a few to remedy or prevent such catastrophies." - xxi. Pages 443-484 constitute a lengthy list of Stable Money Pioneers, individuals who supported the movement. Corporate affiliations are included for most of these names, thus the list reads like a corporate Who's Who of America. Dust jacket not included. Average wear to publisher's pebbled navy cloth. Binding sound. Bookseller ink stamp inside front board. 21 x 14.5cm. Rist p.379, Cohen p.186, Fisher M-2058, Book
In -4°, pp. (22), 289 (i.e. 379), (9); frontespizio inciso (al fr. la data è 1633) e un ritratto calcografico dell’autore che precede il testo. Carta Yy con prova di penna, con testo ancora leggibile. Saavedra, nato e vissuto a Cordoba fra il XVI e il XVII secolo fu un poeta spagnolo, lontano parente di Cervantes. Fumagalli 428. Il volume è rilegato con la raccolta poetica del figlio di Saavedra, “Ocios de Aganipe divididos en differentes poesias” - pp. (6), 260, frontespizio inciso -, pubblicato anch’esso a Trani nello stesso anno. Due rarissime opere spagnole appartenenti al Siglo de oro. In -4 °, pp. (22), 289 (i.e. 379), (9); engraved title page (the title page date is 1633) and a chalchographic portrait of the author preceding the text. Yy leaf with spoiled with ink, yet the text is still readable. Saavedra, was born and lived in Cordoba between the 16th and 17th centuries, was a Spanish poet, distant relative of Cervantes. Fumagalli 428. The volume is bound with the poetic collection of Saavedra’s son, “Ocios de Aganipe divididos en differentes poesias” - pp. (6), 260, engraved title page -, also published in Trani in the same year. Two very rare Spanish works belonging to the Siglo de oro.
pp. xv, [i] 245. Index. First printing. "Aims to show how unstable in buying power are all monetary units, including the dollar; what hidden causes produce that instability; what harm results, although ascribed to other causes; and what are the various remedies which have been tried or proposed. The purpose is not to propose any one remedy as the best but to put the problem to the reader, especially to the business reader." - Preface. Very light wear to original olive cloth. Dust soiling to top edge. Binding sound. Several faint pencil erasures to contents. Dust jacket not included. A remarkably well-preserved copy. Fisher M-1344, Masui p.1410, Batson p.137, Pressman p.142, Hutchinson 682. Book
"Everyone who is concerned with international finance listens when Schacht speaks. His new plan, designed to restore Europe's economic well-being, is an ingenious, essentially uncomplicated idea which has already affected official plans for dealing with Europe's [post WWII] exchange problems. For the rest of his life Dr. Schacht will remain a controversial figure on account of the political role he played in Germany from 1930 onwards; but as a financial and banking expert - as friend and collaborator of Montague Norman, and many other experts in this field - he has had hardly an equal in our time." - dust jacket. 125, [1] pp. First English printing of the 1949 German first edition. Original light yellow cloth lettered in red is very well preserved. Binding tight. Former library copy but with only two markings: a stamp inside the front board and a stamp upon the copyright page. Modest lean to spine. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this daring proposal. Peterson p.367 Book
442 pages. Index. Selected bibliography. Signature of Frank Cyril James upon front free endpaper. Dr. James earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1922 and went on to serve as Principal of McGill University from 1939 to 1962. - online reference. This copy was apparently donated to McGill as its deaccession stamp is placed over Dr. James's signature and faint evidence remains of a label removed from the spine. "No one... can possibly appreciate the great importance of the subject of which this book treats until he has acquired a realizing sense of how, all his life, he has been the victim of the 'money illusion.'" - Introduction. Textured navy boards. Backstrip lettering rubbed but legible. Moderate soiling to edges. Binding intact. Average external wear. A sound first edition copy of this monetary classic. Fisher M-2058, Cohen p.186. Book
223, 16 (ads) pp. Index. "The problem of the Jews in Britain, and the power they wield in public affairs, is a matter of the most absorbing interest in these days when propaganda has clouded the issue and made it almost impossible for the ordinary man to see the subject in its true perspective. This book is a critical but strictly impartial analysis written by a well-known Fleet Street journalist who has studied the whole problem for a number of years in the light of events since the Great War." - from dust jacket. Unmarked with moderate wear to publisher's orange cloth. Binding intact. Small contemporary Buenos Aires bookseller's sticker inside front board. Above-average wear to dust jacket, now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Singerman 494. Book
1st edition. Original peach colored printed wrappers, stitched, 88 pages. Singerman 1461. Cohen, prominent San Francisco lawyer, book collector, and leader of the Jewish community, was unjustly accused of embezzling funds which belonged to creditors of the firm of Adams & Co. , a banking house which had recently defaulted. The case involved transactions with the California Steam Navigation Company. In 1862 the case was dismissed and Cohen, who became chief counsel to the Central Pacific Railroad, was vindicated. His lawyer, Trenor W. Park, had moved from his native Vermont to California in 1852, where he was counsel to the Vigilance Committee and became involved with Fremont in the Mariposa Mine; Stanly was a North Carolina Congressman who had moved to San Francisco in the 1850's. II Harv. Law Cat. 644. Cowan 133. Greenwood 769. Rocq 8030. Cohen 13950. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Wrappers and title page lightly foxed, Very Good Condition. (kh-5-61)
Signed and inscribed by Spiro Agnew upon half-title page. 288 pages. Index. "A powerful book in which Mr. Agnew challenges the widely held beliefs about his alleged involvement in bribery and extortion while in office. His testimony provides a detailed, well-documented, week-by-week account of the whirlwind of events leading to his resignation and unsnarls the tangle of distorted and wilfully contrived evidence that has burdened his life for the past six years." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A handsome copy. Book
464 pages. Index. Chapters include: French Monetary Policy; Speculation and Collapse in Wall Street; Consumers' Income and Outlay; The Art of Central Banking; Money and Index-Numbers; Mr. Keynes's Treatise on Money; International Short-Term Investment; Remedies for Unemployment. Prior owner's name, dated 1939, atop front free endpaper else unmarked. Binding sound. Minimal occasional foxing. Only moderate wear to forest green cloth-covered boards. Clearly legible gilt lettering upon backstrip. A quality copy. [Rist p. 311] Book
5 volume set, bound, blue cloth and gilt title on spine, 586+633+473+479+476pp., 22.5x30cm., col. ills. tipped-in: 37+34+38+40+38 plates. Good condition!! Very rare!!!. Content: Roma (vol. I + vol. II and part of vol. III) - Lazio e Umbria (vol. III ) - Marche-Romagna (Vol. IV) Emilia (vol. V).
in-4° pp. [8], 86 Legatura in piena pelle marrone
Seltenes Werk über die franz. Gold- u. Silbermarken. Nur in 1020 numerierten Exemplaren erschienen.
Erfaßt und beschrieben sind alle, dem Verfasser in mehrjähriger Bemühung erreichbar gewordenen Arbeiten Leipziger Goldschmiede. Ein Verzeichnis derjenigen Leipziger Goldschmiede mit ihren Werken, von denen Arbeiten bekannt sind - erstmalige Zusammenstellung dieser Art - vervollständigen das Werk. Nur in kleiner Auflage gedruckt, und sehr selten.
Äußerst seltenes und erschöpfendes Werk über die schwedische Gold-. u. Silberschmiedekunst und ihre Meister. Bd.1: Renaissance u. Barock 1520-1700. Von O. Källström u. C. Hernmarck. - Bd.2: Spätbarock u. Rokoko 1700-1780. Von C. Hernmack, A. Stevenow u. G. Munthe. - Bd.3: Gustavianischer Stil, Empire u. Romantik 1780-1850. Von C. Hernmarck u. E. Andren. - Bd.4: Abschlußband mit 9000 Markenabbildungen.
Very Good Arabic Original full brown morocco with traditional flap. Traditional shemses (mytical sun) embossing on boards. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 17 cm). In Arabic. [9], 562 p. Hegira 1251 = Gregorian 1835. "A supercommentary to Ibrâhîm ibn Muh?ammad al-H?alabî (1549-)'s shorter commentary (entitled Ghunyat al-mustamlî) on Sadîd al-Dîn al-Kâshgharî (13th century)'s treatise on Muhammadan ceremonial law entitled Munyat al-musallî.". Extremely rare. Brockelmann: History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement, Vol. 1: Islamic literature in Arabic, Vol. 2: Post-Classical period.; 52. Sadid al-Din Al-Kashgari, seventh century., pp. 682.; Not printed copy in OCLC for Bulaq Edition, for digital register, OCLC 945200709.
[Lerida, en casa de Pedro Robles, 1569]. 12vo.; 11 hojas sin numerar, 261 hojas numeradas, 3 hojas de Tabla. Ejemplar falto de portada. Encuadernación de época en piel, con lomera ornada y tejuelo. Ligeras pérdidas y desgaste en los planos.
Seltenes, nur in wenigen Exemplaren erschienens Werk. Beschreibt hauptsächlich Arbeiten Breslauer Herkunft und schlesischer Provinzialstädte.
Einzigartige Prachtpublikation über die Kunstschätze des Grünen Gewölbes, das durch August den Starken, den König von Sachsen begründet wurde. Die Bände gliedern sich inhaltlich wie folgt. Bd. 1: Geräte und Gefässe in Silber- und Goldfassung aus Holz u. Stein, Perlmutter u. Muscheln, Ton u. Glas, Bergkristall u. Halbedelsteinen, Strausseneiern u. Kokosnüssen. Bd. 2: Gefässe, Figuren u. Uhren aus Gold u. Silber, verziehrt in reiner Metalltechnik, oder besetzt mit Juwelen, Kameen u. Email. Bd. 3: Kleinodien d. Goldschmiedekunst verziehrt mit Email u. Juwelen. Erzeugnisse d. Steinschneidekunst in Bergkristall u. farbigen Steinarten in kostbaren Fassungen. Tadelloses Exemplar.
Madrid, en la Imprenta de los Herederos de Francisco del Hierro, 1749, Viuda de Francisco del Hierro, 1732, Imprenta del Supremo Consejo de la Inquisición, 1759; Viuda de Francisco del Hierro, 1749, Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1777, Herederos de Francisco del Hierro, 1738 - 1736 - 1739 y 1746. Nueve volúmenes en 4to.; 14 hs., 400 pp., 8 hs. + 20 hs., 407 pp. + 30 hs., 366 pp., 7 hs. y una lámina plegada + 16 hs., 422 pp., 7 hs. + XLVII pp., 432 pp. + 22 hs., 399 pp. + 22 hs., 420 pp. + 24 hs., 420 pp. + 16 hs., 406 pp., 9 hs. Encuadernaciónes, no uniformes, de la época, en piel, en pergamino, y en media piel del siglo diecinueve para el tomo noveno.
Madrid, en la Imprenta de Don Manuel Martín y a sus expensas,, 1768 - 1771. Ocho volúmenes en 4to.imperial; 28 hs., 678 pp. y una lámina grabada por González + 12 hs., 822 pp. + 12 hs., 864 pp. + 8 hs., 728 pp. + 16 pp., 1237 pp. + 12 hs., 1094 pp. + 8 hs., 1128 pp. + 8 hs., 855 pp. Encuadernación uniforme, de la época, en piel marbreada, con lomeras ornadas, fatigadas, a excepción del volúmen primero, encuadernado en pergamino.
526 pages. List of black and white maps and illustrations. Black and white photographic portrait of author. Marbled text edges. "...Not designed to build up any sect, but to build up truth in the minds of the people and help all who wish truth, believing there are such in every division of Christendom." - from Preface. Maroon cloth bears somewhat above-average wear. Decorations upon front board partially rubbed. Binding sound. Short openings at each end of back strip and two-inch opening between top of backstrip and front board. Small piece missing from upper corner of page 526 does not affect contents. Minor openings to fore-edge of front free endpaper and first blank leaf. Erasures faintly visible atop front free endpaper. Modest quantity of light pencil markings to contents. A sound copy. Book
Pages 562-676. Features: In the Khalifa's Clutches - part IV of Charles Neufeld's ordeal; Impressions of Pekin - sensational photo-illustrated article; Two Loves Affairs, and How They Ended - Colonel Hervey Tryon falls headlong into a deep well of garbag; The Hook-Swinging Ceremony as I Saw It - Rev. Joshua Knowles describes a South Indian pagan festival in which devotees have hook placed in their flesh before they are swung into the air at the end of long poles - with photos; A Desperate Plight - travails of Captain H.V. Barclay in the arid Australian interior; The Great Grottos of Han - photo-illustrated article on the marvelous caverns near Han-sur-Lesse in the Belgian Ardennes; Held by An Octopus - Herbert Perkins explains how he was grabbed from out of the water; Shooting the Reversible Falls - photo-illustrated story from St. John, New Brunswick involving Xavier Francis and Louis Mitchell; Life in an Italian Village (near Pallanza); On the War-Path with Redskins - a retaliatory raid of natives is recounted by J.W. Schultz, a Rocky Mountain guide who was married to a Blackfoot and lived among them in Montana; The Fantastic Carnival at Pangau in a remote part of the Austrian Tyrol; Twenty-Seven Days in an Open Boat - Part II - the castaways are finally rescued, but in ghastly condition; Naia, The Witch of Rochefort-en-Terre, in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; Through Italy in Bedouin Dress - photo-illustrated account; One Thousand Miles on Mule-Back - Part I of this photo-illustrated article of the amazing journey of Mabel Penniman from New York to London via Central and South Amerca; The Bogus "Rush" at Coolgardie - photo-illustrated of a fake gold rush in Australia as told by John Marshalll of Kalgoorlie; Photo of women coal heavers in Dresden; Full-page photo from Kelsey Creek, California showing a river of fish three feet deep - with no water!; Photo of Tunisian camel fight; and more. Average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
Manuscrito datable entre 1616 y 1618. Un volúmen en 4to., compuesto de 395 folios útiles, de apretada caligrafía y con numerosas notas marginales. Encuadernación en pergamino, de la época. Un excelente documento de la enseñanza de la Escolástica en el Siglo de Oro. Fray Juan de Biescas, nacido en Graus, fue durante muchos años Catedrático en la Universidad de Huesca. Según se desprende de Latassa, que es quien únicamente recoge datos sobre el mismo, publicó entre 1637 y 1641 en Huesca, en las prensas de Pedro Bluson, dos "Partes" de Comentarios a Santo Tomás, dejando inédita una 'Tercera Parte' cuyo original sería el manuscrito aquí ofrecido.
Lorenzo Lorenzi (1720 - 1780), nato a Volterra, attivo intorno al 1760, fu allievo di Cigna, incise parte della collezione del marchese Gerini e soggetti dal Carracci. Incisione al bulino impressa su carta vergellata. Da un soggetto di Ciro Ferri, pittore romano del sec. XVII (Roma 1634 - ivi 1689). Pubblicata a pag. 151 rif. 236 del catalogo "Per Bacco" di Alberto Alberghini.
Medina del Campo: Metymnae Campi, expensis Petri Landry & Ambrosii Duport, 1587. Folio; portada con el escudo real grabado, 1 hoja, 536 pp., 26 hojas. Ex libris manuscrito en portada del jurisconsulto de Albarracín Juan Sanchez de Ruesta. Encuadernación de época en pergamino. Presenta manchas en el plano posterior de origen dudoso. Luis de Molina, sobrino de Ambrosio de Morales, está considerado como uno de los más notables juristas del Siglo XVI. Defendió en su obra "Pro succesione regni Portugalliae Allegatio" los derechos de sucesión a la corona de Portugal de Felipe II, a quien dedicó ésta su obra más conocida, en la que se analiza detalladamente la regulación de la muy hispánica institución de los Mayorazgos y sus vinculaciones, de sustancial importancia en la vida social y económica española hasta mediado el Siglo XIX. -
