May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[Economics] American Economics, 1830s.
Three Titles.
Including:

1) William Gouge's A Short History of Paper Money and Baking in the United States, Philadelphia: by T.W. Ustick, 1833, first edition, octavo, some underlining and marginal notes, later half leather and marbled paper boards;

2) James Bennett's American System of Practical Book-Keeping, New York: B. & S. Collins, 1835, sixteenth edition, with large folding engraved illustration bound opposite the title, water stained, contemporary dated inscription to title, original half leather and marbled paper-covered boards;

[and] 3) Francis Wayland's The Elements of Political Economy, New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1837, first edition, large octavo, a nicely preserved copy bound in publisher's textured cloth boards, spine faded, contents good, 9 x 5 1/2 in. (3)