![Mrs. Woodhull (Broker) [CDV]. Victoria Woodhull](/pictures/thumb/306900.jpg?v=1598906135)
(1870s). Ephemera. A circa 1870s carte-de-visite photograph (CDV) of the first woman to run for President in the US. 2-7/16 by 4-1/16 inches. Thick mount; rounded corners. This CDV shows Victoria Woodhull in profile from the waist up wearing a ruffled gown and a matching cap. The verso of the photograph.....
Price: $750
Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1832. First Edition. Pamphlet. A speech on commercial debts and the American bankruptcy laws. Hopkinson begins with the observation that merchants are the United States' ambassadors to the world: "The American merchant then should never forget, that he holds the character of his country, as well.....
Price: $100
Philadelphia: R. Folwell for Benjamin Franklin Bache, [1797]. First Edition. The foundational work proposing the Universal Basic Income, the precursor to the US Social Security program and the current proposals and experiments to guarantee people a basic stipend for living. iv, 5–32 pages. On the title page, Paine lays out.....
Price: $1,750
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1934. First Edition. Testimony before Congress on the possible effects of taking the US off the gold standard, which happened a few weeks later. Scarce. The witness was John Janney, Chairman of the Executive Board of the American Society of Practical Economists, who spoke.....
Price: $30
New York: (the author), 1917. First Edition. The American representative of the Comisión Reguladora del Mercado de Henequen [Regulatory Commission of the Sisal Fiber Market] narrates his actions in the US, from 1915 to 1917. The Mexican Revolution broke the US monopoly on sisal fiber cultivation in Yucatán, Mexico, and.....
Price: $65
Two pages (single sheet). 8 by 10 inches, on ruled paper. A nice California business letter. This letter details a number of speculative business ventures in Southern California, and the writer and the recipient appear to be partners in a number of investments. There is a lengthy discussion of the purchase.....
Price: $75
[San Francisco]: (the author), [probably early 1949]. First Edition. Hardcover. 52 pages plus 9 leaves of plates with a color photograph reproduced on each side. 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. A day-by-day account of Witter's month-long safari in British East Africa in September and October 1948. With a record of animals killed.....
Price: $60
Charleston: Steam Power Press of Walker, Evans & Co., 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 31 pages. A Southerner argues that a revived foreign slave trade was crucial to the Southern economy. Spratt believed that importing new slaves from Africa would reduce the price of slaves in the United States, lower labor.....
Price: $450
Madrid: Imprenta de Don Ramon Verges, 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. xx, 315 pages, two parts, with separate title pages but continuous pagination. The first book on economics written by a Spaniard and published in Spain (a critical edition was published by the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales in 1989). Elementos was.....
Price: $1,250
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1934. First Edition. 33 pages. Statement of John Janney, Chairman of the Executive Board of the American Society of Practical Economists. Testimony before Congress on the possible effects of taking the US off the gold standard, which happened a few weeks later. This separate.....
Price: $50
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1933. First Edition. 59 pages. Statement of John Janney, Chairman of the Executive Board of the American Society of Practical Economists. Based on his testimony before the United States House of Representitives Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, February 8 and 9, 1933. First edition.....
Price: $30
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1932. 159, [1] pages. Printed front cover; blank rear cover. Stapled signatures; no separate covers, as issued. Transcripts of hearings on the falling price of silver (which would hit a record low of 25 cents per ounce by the end of the year, resulting.....
Price: $30
