New York: Duell, Sloan and Pierce, (1940). First edition. First edition of the only book by the famous... Read More about How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price
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Haddam Neck, CT: 1825-1856. A Connecticut Shoemaker's Account Book 1825-1856. A wonderful look at a craftsman's life in early 19th century Connecticut. Most of Clark's trade came from mending shoes, for which he averaged 40 cents a pair, his steadiest customers being members of the Brainerd family, an old and..... Read More about Manuscript Account Book of Edward R. Clark, Shoemaker
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Aboard the Hussar [Washington, Alaska, etc.]: May 8-June 3, 1934. "Just a shooting trip in Alaska": Signed by E.F. Hutton. Manuscript diary, in a secretarial hand (or perhaps by Hutton's wife Marjorie Merriwether Post) but signed by each of the member of the travelling party, of a 1934 cruise of..... Read More about Manuscript diary of a yachting and bear-hunting trip to Alaska, inscribed at the head of the...
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Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1841. First edition. A Nice Association Copy. Nathan Appleton (1779-1861) was an American merchant and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1831-1833 and again in 1842. He was one of the founders of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company. He..... Read More about Remarks on Currency and Banking; Having Refference [sic] to the Present Derangement of the...
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Boston: Thomas & Andrews, May, 1812. Thomas Mellon's Copy. The first edition of this early, influential American atlas was published at Philadelphia in 1804, with an editions following at Boston in 1805. The present 1812 edition with seven new maps added (Austalasia, Polynesia, New-Granada, Carracas, Peru, Chili, and La Plata)..... Read More about A New and Elegant General Atlas
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New York: April 6 1832. Olcott was the president of the Mechanics and Farmers' Bank of Albany, N.Y. and a prominent figure in New York State politics and finance. Reads in part: " I have your letter of 4st & regret---not get the loan of 1200$..." Read More about ALS. To Thomas W. Olcott. About a loan
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Waltham, MA: Metz Company, 1916. First edition. 1916 Metz Car Advertising Broadside. In 1893 C.H. Metz began working for Waltham Company, early auto manufacturers; in 1909 he bought the company and instituted a plan whereby the public could buy 14 separate packages and build their own car. This approach was..... Read More about Metz 1916 Touring Car and Roadster Models: printed advertising broadside
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München: Mit churfürstlich akademische Schriften, [1776]. German edition of Bailey's Advancement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce with 55 plates in Volume II. Read More about Die Beförderung der Künste, der Manufacturen und der Handelschaft oder Beschreibungen der...
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Baltimore: Thomas Murphy, 1823. First edition. The establishment of the Second Bank of the United States in 1816 prompted immediate distrust of the institution, with opponents charging it as constitutionally illegitimate and a direct threat to Jeffersonian agrarianism. With more local banks than any other state, Maryland faced an unprecedented..... Read More about An Exhibit of the Losses Sustained at the Office of Discount and Deposit Baltimore, under the...
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New York: December 2, 1930. German-born investment banker, Otto Hermann Kahn (1867-1943), was a well-recognized public figure who was immortalized in song by Fanny Brice and was the inspiration for the cahacter Roscoe W. Chandler in the Marx Brothers’ Animal Crackers, though he appears to belie his notoriety in this..... Read More about Typed letter signed "Otto H Kahn" to "Mr. Halpern" (Seymour Halpern) in...
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[New York]: [Privately-printed], [1822]. Relates to the controversy concerning control of the North-River Bank between the early American financier, banker and stock trader Jacob Barker and the Director of the Bank David Rogers, with Barker being convicted in court of challenging Rogers to a duel after Rogers had slandered him..... Read More about Jacob Barker to His Creditors [caption title
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New York: The Magazine of Wall Street, 1924. First edition. Read More about How to Make Big Profits in Seasoned Securities
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New York: 20 October 1937. Albert C. Barnes (1872-1951), self-made businessman, had a distaste for inherited privilege and a respect for the common man, which fed the fires of his interest in industrial relations, self-improvement, and equal rights for African Americans. His desire to provide nondiscriminatory access to art and..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Albert C. Barnes
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Boston: Joseph G. Martin, 1871-1902. A scarce compilation of annually issued sheets of "Stock Fluctuations in Bank, Insurance, Railroad and Manufacturing stocks, Government Securities, State, City and Railroad Bonds, and other Companies sold at the Boston Broker's Board, and by Auction, with the semiannual dividends paid by each." Comprises 30..... Read More about Annual Appendix to Seventy Three Years History of the Boston Stock Market from 1870 [cover title
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New York: The Aldine Book Company, 1903. First edition. Author's Edition, printed throughout on imperial Japanese vellum, and full bound in crushed levant, limited to 75 numbered copies signed by the author. Additionally inscribed by the author to Henry Clay Frick II, "In memory of the grandfather whose name he..... Read More about History of Carnegie Steel. An Inside Review of Its Humble Origin and Impressive Growth
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Philadelphia: May 27th, 1915. A letter and clean, crisp autograph by marketing pioneer and famous Philadelphia department store founder and owner, John Wanamaker (1858 - 1922), a merchandising genius and proponent of the power of advertising, who employed the first full-time ad copywriter, and whose other credits include the creation..... Read More about Typed letter signed ("John Wanamaker") to ("Mr. A.E. Daniels"
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Kansas City, Missouri: Press of Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, 1883. Over sixty-five Galloway bulls and heifers on the block, giving detailed pedigree. With an introduction by Matthews explaining the his interest in the breed. Read More about Catalogue of Imported Galloway Cattle, Registered in the Galloway Herd Book, the property of A.B....
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New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1885. Second edition. Wall St. Novel, 1885. A novel of Wall Street speculation, first printed in the previous year anonymously. This second edition has a new "Publisher's Note" which quotes a review of the Philadelphia Evening Sun identifying the author by name, and adding..... Read More about On a Margin
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Bellows Fall, Vermont: 1830s-1870s. Son of Levi Chapin, Jonathon was born in Vermont in 1802. Also accounts for Jane Chapin who did candle dipping, made frocks, etc. Read More about Account Book for Jonathon Chapin's Farm Account Book
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First edition. Read More about The Growth of Chicago Banks
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London: Firmin Didot, 1828. First edition. Pascal & the Origin of the Bus. Scarce treatise on the development of the omnibus in the 17th century, containing relevant documents and letters, including a facsimile letter in the hand of Pascal's sister, docketed by him. "The idea of a public transport service..... Read More about Les Carrosses à Cinq Sols ou les Omnibus du Dix-Huitème siècle
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London: 1831-1832. First edition. Read More about Two-Penny Trash; or, Politics for the Poor. July 1830 - July 1832
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Kansas City, MO: Nabuisco, 1911. Inscribed on ffep. Read More about A Descriptive and Pictorial Review of the Luncheon and Reception given by the National BIscuit...
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Chelsea, New York: Privately Printed, n.d. [1927]. No. 3 of 27 copies on Marlowe Antique. “Twenty-seven copies of this book have been printed privately in New York. Each copy contains a sheet of the original manuscript — Copy number one contains sheets one and twenty-eight of the manuscript” (from the..... Read More about The Carnegie Works at Pittsburgh
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