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Two hundred and fifty years ago this year, a group of stock-jobbers, dealers and brokers, and market-makers got together to erect their own building on Sweeting’s Alley, which became known as The Stock Exchange. For a daily fee of 6d anyone could pitch up and make a bet, and so the art of speculation was born.
Other works offer advice and courses on how to beat the market, with Richard Wyckoff’s Method of Trading and Investing in Stocks being a rare survivor. Unusually, the text was loaned, rather than sold to a select group of clients who were paying for what they believed was a unique glimpse into the technical mysteries of the market as written by a living master.
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'God Irrevocably Fixed the Boundaries of IRELAND'. A rare political pamphlet promoting the first American bond-drive to finance the newly declared ...
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A scarce mail order booklet for 'Books by Babson', the American economist and temperance campaigner who founded the eponymous Babson's Reports in ...
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Inscribed by the author to prohibitionist leader Earl Dodge. A reflection on electoral defeat by Roger Babson (1875-1967), an economist and tempera...
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A curious post-crash guide urging novice investors to undertake a 'course of practical instruction' before entering the 'man-made machine known in...
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The first edition of this helpful guide to stock trading aimed at the novice investor. William Harman Black (1868-1955) went on to have a successf...
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A rare investor's guide published by the Carlisle Investment Trust as promotional material, with a useful glossary of technical terms, tables of s...
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The first edition of this fascinating work aimed at demystifying financial journalism for the 'uninitiated' investor. The author, Charles Duguid (...
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An issue of Town and Country published in the run-up to the Panic of 1796-1797, the last in a series of economic crises which shook the Anglophone...
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The first edition of Richard Edwards' review of the New York Produce Exchange, a history of the commodities market from its foundation in 1861, wi...
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A complete run of Moody's Investment Survey for the years 1933 to 1935, an important weekly review of the financial markets with corresponding sto...
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An early history of the London Stock Exchange. John Francis (1810-1886) entered the Bank of England in 1833 and became chief accountant in 1870. I...
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'The Institute of Bankers in Scotland, the Society of Accountants in Edinburgh, and the Institute of Accountants and Actuaries in Glasgow have arr...
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William Peter Hamilton (1867-1929) was editor of the Wall Street Journal from 1908 to 1929 and a leading proponent of the Dow Theory, a trend-foll...
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Novelist's son commits mining fraud. The first edition of this pamphlet promoting investment in the fictitious mining company Solomon Columbus Rhod...
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Cotton futures. A dissertation on cotton futures and their impact on the cotton industry by Hans Heizmann, submitted for the degree of Doctor juris...
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The first edition of Henry Hemming's richly illustrated history of the New York Stock Exchange, with four engraved views of 'Old New York', and 35...
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The third issue of this annual pocket guide to investment opportunities in the United States, with lists of railroad and industrial bonds, stock o...
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The private telegraphic cipher of the banking house of financier and Wall Street memoirist Henry Clews (1834-1923). Private codes such as these we...
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In anticipation of the approaching London Antiquarian book fairs, this May, we are spotlighting rare African exploration works. Featured, are four first editions, with inscriptions linking them to historical figures, enhancing their collectability.
Join us as we journey through time to discover some of the rarest books in the world. The following texts have shown an extraordinary ability to survive, with some books having survived the ravages of flood and fire, and others counting only a single surviving copy.
The public perception of the East India Company, an organisation which was to become one of Britain's most notorious colonial ventures, was mediated by a collective of artists. Diplomatic wrangling, imperial posturing, trade and warfare became the subjects of a significant artistic movement, aimed at depicting and dissecting the Company’s involvement in the political and social life of the period.
The woods and rivers, hills and hollows of fiction constitute some of our earliest and most beloved memories: from the Hundred Acre Wood to the home of Mr. McGregor. Join us this Easter as we travel through the imaginary places and winding roads of children’s literature.
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