Author: JAY COOKE & CO; EDWIN M. LEWIS, TRUSTEE
Title: NEW CATALOGUE of 1881 of Stocks, Bonds, Western Lands, Town Lots and other Real Estate, belonging to the estate of Jay Cooke & Co. in bankruptcy : to be sold agreeably to the terms and provisions of the plan for closing the estate...on the 31st day of Mar
Description: Philadelphia, Allen, Lane & Scott, Printers. 1861, 1st. Soft Cover, 8vo. New Catalogue of 1881 of Stocks, Bonds, Western Lands, Town Lots and other Real Estate, belonging to the estate of Jay Cooke & Co. in bankruptcy : to be sold agreeably to the terms and provisions of the plan for closing the estate..on the 31st day of March, 1881. First edition. Original stapled wrappers. Published Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott, printers, 1861. 8vo. stapled wrappers with green covers, 6" x 9 1/4", 93pp. listing over 1,100 lots, Errata page and Catalogue Note on pink paper bound in. Second catalogue of the assets of Jay Cooke & Co. that were sold in an 1881 bankruptcy auction. Jay Cooke, regarded as the first major American investment banker, aggressively and successfully sold dormant U.S. Treasury notes that financed the Civil War. Later, investing heavily in timber and railway ventures, he was forced into bankruptcy after the financial Panic of 1873. 2 1/4" loss to the backstrip of wraparound at lower spine, some splits/closed tears along backstrip, top edge of one page opened roughly. Very good. Binding tight and secure, pages clean, bright, unmarked, no foxing. Scarce. Only four copies in WorldCat. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.

Keywords: Banking and Finance


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