• A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century. (1855)

    BURN, Jacob Henry (1794-1869). A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century; Presented to the Corporation Library by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy Citizen and Distiller. 

    “The necessitye of these small moneys did appeare here with us in England, where everie chandler, tapster, vintner, and others made tokens of lead and brasse for half-pence, and at Bristol by the late queenes authoritie were made of copper, with a ship on the one side, and C.B. on the other side signifying CIVITAS BRISTOLL…”

    8vo. [London], Printed for the use of members of the Corporation of the City of London, 1855. 

    £75.00
  • LEYBOURN, William (1626-1716). Panarithmologia… (1756)

    LEYBOURN, William (1626-1716). Panarithmologia or the Trader’s Sure Guide Containing Exact and Useful Tables Ready to Cast Up, Adapted to the Use of Merchants, Mercers, Bankers, Drapers, Goldsmiths…, And All who Deal by Wholesale, or Retail. Also for Carpenters, Bricklayers, Joyners, Glaziers… 4to. London, A. Wilde, 1756. PROVENANCE: Contemporary,  or early 19th century inscriptions to front and rear endpapers.

     

     

    £65.00
  • Guide to the Unprotected in Every-day Matters Relating to Property and Income by a Banker’s Daughter (1891)

    [GALTON, Emma Sophia] (1811-1904). Guide to the Unprotected in Every-day Matters Relating to Property and Income by a Banker’s Daughter. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co., 1891. Chapters include: Investments, Money Transactions with Bankers, The Funds and Learning Securities, Shares Loans, and Mortgages, House Property, Keeping Accounts, and Technical Terms Used In Business. In the rear of the book there is contained “Opinions of the Press” which state: “How am I to draw a Cheque? How should I write to my Banker to send me some money? I want to sell out to stocks; what must I do? How am I to get Power of Attorney? These,  says the ‘ Banker’s Daughter’ are one or two of the numberless questions often put to her by her friends, for the most part young widows and single ladies. Simple as they are, there are thousands who would be glad of answers to them and to all such the ‘GUIDE TO THE UNPROTECTED’ is certain to be welcome”. PROVENANCE: Occasional underlining in the text. A fascinating and scarce book. In the BBC’s 2016 Money Box Programme the book was discussed and appraised against modern advice and classified as probably the first guide of its kind, specifically aimed at women. Please note the advice given within this book is of its time (Victorian) and may have changed.

    £100.00
  • The City; or, The Physiology of London Business… 1845.

    Very RARE FIRST EDITION. [EVANS, David Morier]. (1819-74). The City; or, The Physiology of London Business; with Sketches On ‘Change, and at the Coffee Houses. XII, 211, [1], [4:adverts] pp. (Occasional light spotting, a few tears (without loss to text). Publisher’s brown/purple cloth (cloth faded, spine re-backed using later cloth, corners bumped, later endpapers and pastedowns). Otherwise good. 8vo. London: Baily Brothers, Exchange Buildings, 1845.

    £250.00
  • The Baltic & American Ship-Master’s Assistant… 1812.

    AN EXTREMELY RARE, SEEMINGLY UNRECORDED, EDITION. [ANON]. The Baltic & American Ship-Master’s Assistant, and Owner’s Calculator: containing an account of the course of exchange, weights, and measures, in the principal ports in the Baltic: Tables, of the weights at Petersburgh, &c. &c. reduced to English Tons, Hundreds, Quarters, &c. also for shewing any number of Deals reduced to Standard Deals, in all the ports of Russia, Sweden, and Prussia, and at Dram, Christiana, and the southern ports of Norway: Together with tables shewing the loads, feet & inches, contained in any Quantity of Dantzic Deal, Plank, &c. to which is added tables Whereby the freight of any Number of Loads of Timber, Barrels of Tar, &c. may be had. Also tables shewing the Wages of Seamen, from one day to six months. [2], 93, [1] pp. 8vo. R. Blachford, 114, Minories, London. North Shields: Printed by T. Appleby. 1812 (changed by hand to 1818??)

    £180.00