Author: Freeman Hunt, ed
Title: Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review: Volume 31 (July-December 1854)
Description: New York, Freeman Hunt, 1854. 1st Edition. Leather. 784p. Ex-library, REBOUND. A hardcover book that has been rebound in brown cloth. Pages toned and foxed with age. Library stamps on endpapers and title page. Some pages in November issue are faintly dampstained; otherwise, text unmarked and binding tight. A good, sturdy reading copy. Volume 31 of this journal of commerce, agriculture, banking, and business in 19th-century America. The monthly issues span July through December 1854. This volume of the magazine features an economic analysis of the then-ongoing Crimean War ("Commercial View of the Russo-Turkish Question"), a study of the "Commercial Importance of Liberia," and a commentary on the ability of a married woman to hold property ("The Separate Property of Husband and Wife"). At the end of each issue is a section of book reviews -- included are short reviews of SLAVERY, a book of abolitionist speeches by Horace Mann; and SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS, a travel memoir by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Fair .

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