Book-keeping by single and double entry: Simplified and arranged according to the present practice of well regulated cou by John H. Shea - 1847

A. W. Shaw Company. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1919. First Edition. Hard Cover. 1589 pages: 5.5 x 8.25 in.: 8.8: KB#001558: No Jacket as Issued. Series consists of six (6) volumes: "Advertising and Service"; "Accounting and Costs"; "Loans and Discounts"; "Management and Executive Control"; "Buildings, Equipment and Supplies"; and "Credits and Collections". All books have black cloth boards, with bright gold gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Some corners are bumped; most are sharp, with slightly worn edges. All pages of each volume appear to be clean, complete and tight, unless otherwise indicated. Many have several fold-out maps and layout charts. "Advertising and Service" volume has 312 pages + index. "Accounting and Costs" volume has 225 pages + index. "Loans and Discounts" volume has 264 pages + index; two pages (Part 1 and pp. 2-3) are torn, with a 1" square piece torn… 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

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

Rare/collectible. The book is in excellent condition. The dust jacket has some wear particularly on the edges. See pictures.Subject: Business & Economics. Topic: Management.

A. W. Shaw Company. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1919. First Edition. Hard Cover. 1589 pages: 5.5 x 8.25 in.: 8.8: KB#001558: No Jacket as Issued. Series consists of six (6) volumes: "Advertising and Service"; "Accounting and Costs"; "Loans and Discounts"; "Management and Executive Control"; "Buildings, Equipment and Supplies"; and "Credits and Collections". All books have black cloth boards, with bright gold gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Some corners are bumped; most are sharp, with slightly worn edges. All pages of each volume appear to be clean, complete and tight, unless otherwise indicated. Many have several fold-out maps and layout charts. "Advertising and Service" volume has 312 pages + index. "Accounting and Costs" volume has 225 pages + index. "Loans and Discounts" volume has 264 pages + index; two pages (Part 1 and pp. 2-3) are torn, with a 1" square piece torn… 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

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

Rare/collectible. The book is in excellent condition. The dust jacket has some wear particularly on the edges. See pictures.Subject: Business & Economics. Topic: Management.