Men and Mysteries of Wall Street by James K Medbery - 1870

Paris: Rapilly, 1828. Hardcover. Very Good +. Title page continued: "et en Général de Tous les Citoyens, l'Économie des Sociétés." 5 volumes: 1 leaf with an engraved figure; 20 cm. Contemporary half calf with unusual yellow, red, and brown marbled paper over boards. Gilt-tooled spine title: Say--Cours d'Économie Politique. Gilt-tooled spine decoration. All page edges speckled. On verso of each half title is an advertisement for other works by Jean-Baptiste Say available from Ponthieu et Cie., Paris, and Ponthieu, Michelsen et Cie., Leipzig. Volumes 4 and 5 are dated 1829. Each volume has an index. This set contains the first five volumes, published in 1828 and 1829. In Very Good+ Condition: slight loss of leather at tail of vol. 1 and head of vol. 3; front board of vol. 1 scraped, with slight loss of leather at upper edge; lower edge of vol. 2 front board rubbed with slight separation of leather at lower edge of front joint;… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1926. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Leather. Publisher's full dark green leather, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Inscribed to Mrs. Frank M. Smith by the author on the half-title. . Hinges professionally repaired, covers and spine are sunned, else unmarked and clean. VERY GOOD+. . 4to 11" - 13" tall. 279 pp. Signed by Author .

New York: Time Inc., 1932. Three volumes each containing 3 issues complete with covers, Vol. 5, Jan.-Mar.; Vol. 5, Apr.-Jun.; and Vol. 6, Oct.-Dec., 1932. A total of 9 issues, including the March issue with the stunning Diego Rivera cover and the December issue with the 4 page insert advertising the classic film "Grand Hotel", starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, and Joan Crawford. Each volume bound in quarter leather over cloth boards, gilt titles and rules, the binding Very Good, leather rubbed and splitting at spine ends and corners. The magazines are all Fine. This oversize 3 volume set is quite heavy; please select media mail only, and no international shipping. . First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1844. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Reprinted from the "Cornwall Royal Gazette," at the Desire of the Fallmouth Harbour Committee. Rebound library buckram, with orig. front wrapper bound in. 32pp. Illustrated with two folding charts. SIGNED to "George Smith Esq, with the Author's Compliments on ff/ endpaper. With Smith's (d. 1921) bookplate and label on front inner wrapper. Smith was a Knight of Treliske, Cornwall. Light offsetting to title page from map, front wrappers somewhat soiled, light rubbing to spine but o/w near fine. Edwaard Osler [1798-1863] was called to Truro in Cornwall as editor of the 'Royal Cornwall Gazette.' Several special articles contributed by him to its columns, such as 'Packet Question: Falmouth or Southampton', were reissued in seperate form (Dictionary of National Biography). Base and Courtney: A Catalogue of the Writings, Both Manuscript and Printed of Cornishmen, and of the Works Relating to County of Cornwall, Vol. I, 417.

London: John Richardson, 1810. First Edition. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 220 x 135 mm), xli, [3], 621, [1 errata], [2 adverts], in contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label. An important early work on life insurance, annuities, and endowments by London stockbroker Francis Baily (1774-1844). He gives practical advice on how to value an insurance policy or annuity, answers numerous hypothetical questions, and provides 59 tables on mortality, the value of policies, etc. What's especially interesting in this book is his discussion of assurance companies (see pages 479-520) in which he seems to imply that some of them were engaged in fraudulent practices.This book became a standard reference for the insurance industry, along with his earlier book, "The Doctrine of Interest and Annuities." (1808). But he was interested in more than finance: He was a co-founder of what became the Royal Astronomical Society and took part in scientific experiments. Baily was also an adventurer; in… Read More

Paris: Rapilly, 1828. Hardcover. Very Good +. Title page continued: "et en Général de Tous les Citoyens, l'Économie des Sociétés." 5 volumes: 1 leaf with an engraved figure; 20 cm. Contemporary half calf with unusual yellow, red, and brown marbled paper over boards. Gilt-tooled spine title: Say--Cours d'Économie Politique. Gilt-tooled spine decoration. All page edges speckled. On verso of each half title is an advertisement for other works by Jean-Baptiste Say available from Ponthieu et Cie., Paris, and Ponthieu, Michelsen et Cie., Leipzig. Volumes 4 and 5 are dated 1829. Each volume has an index. This set contains the first five volumes, published in 1828 and 1829. In Very Good+ Condition: slight loss of leather at tail of vol. 1 and head of vol. 3; front board of vol. 1 scraped, with slight loss of leather at upper edge; lower edge of vol. 2 front board rubbed with slight separation of leather at lower edge of front joint;… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1926. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Leather. Publisher's full dark green leather, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Inscribed to Mrs. Frank M. Smith by the author on the half-title. . Hinges professionally repaired, covers and spine are sunned, else unmarked and clean. VERY GOOD+. . 4to 11" - 13" tall. 279 pp. Signed by Author .

New York: Time Inc., 1932. Three volumes each containing 3 issues complete with covers, Vol. 5, Jan.-Mar.; Vol. 5, Apr.-Jun.; and Vol. 6, Oct.-Dec., 1932. A total of 9 issues, including the March issue with the stunning Diego Rivera cover and the December issue with the 4 page insert advertising the classic film "Grand Hotel", starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, and Joan Crawford. Each volume bound in quarter leather over cloth boards, gilt titles and rules, the binding Very Good, leather rubbed and splitting at spine ends and corners. The magazines are all Fine. This oversize 3 volume set is quite heavy; please select media mail only, and no international shipping. . First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1844. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Reprinted from the "Cornwall Royal Gazette," at the Desire of the Fallmouth Harbour Committee. Rebound library buckram, with orig. front wrapper bound in. 32pp. Illustrated with two folding charts. SIGNED to "George Smith Esq, with the Author's Compliments on ff/ endpaper. With Smith's (d. 1921) bookplate and label on front inner wrapper. Smith was a Knight of Treliske, Cornwall. Light offsetting to title page from map, front wrappers somewhat soiled, light rubbing to spine but o/w near fine. Edwaard Osler [1798-1863] was called to Truro in Cornwall as editor of the 'Royal Cornwall Gazette.' Several special articles contributed by him to its columns, such as 'Packet Question: Falmouth or Southampton', were reissued in seperate form (Dictionary of National Biography). Base and Courtney: A Catalogue of the Writings, Both Manuscript and Printed of Cornishmen, and of the Works Relating to County of Cornwall, Vol. I, 417.

London: John Richardson, 1810. First Edition. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 220 x 135 mm), xli, [3], 621, [1 errata], [2 adverts], in contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label. An important early work on life insurance, annuities, and endowments by London stockbroker Francis Baily (1774-1844). He gives practical advice on how to value an insurance policy or annuity, answers numerous hypothetical questions, and provides 59 tables on mortality, the value of policies, etc. What's especially interesting in this book is his discussion of assurance companies (see pages 479-520) in which he seems to imply that some of them were engaged in fraudulent practices.This book became a standard reference for the insurance industry, along with his earlier book, "The Doctrine of Interest and Annuities." (1808). But he was interested in more than finance: He was a co-founder of what became the Royal Astronomical Society and took part in scientific experiments. Baily was also an adventurer; in… Read More