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[COMMERCE / ECONOMICS & FINANCE]., A MANUAL Of FOREIGN EXCHANGES, MONIES, WEIGHTS And MEASURES; With Explanations of the Courses of Exchange, and Tables of the Value of Foreign Monies, Examples of Foreign Bills, with Various Tables for Reducing Foreign Money to Sterling, &c. &c. Intended
Glasglow: Printed for J. Niven; for A. Penman & Co., 1820. 12mo: ¹1 a2 A-O6 P4. 1st edition (Goldsmith 22914). vi, 175, [1] pp. Last page blank except for printer imprint @ base of page. A prior owner, in the lower margin of p. 73, has added a mss note giving the exchange rate for Havana. Period marbled paper boards with later brown cloth spine., reinforcement to gutter after t.p. Withal, a VG copy. ¶ An historically valuable work documenting early 19th C. international commerce, and a quite scarce book on the subject it is; OCLC records but one institutional holding [Columbia] & no copies at auction these last 30 years.
Offered for US$ 412.50 by: Tavistock Books, ABAA - Book number: 27602