Insider trading. The first edition of this early work on insider trading by Frank Percy Smith, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University o...

The first edition in English of Adolphe Thiers' (1797-1877) classic biography of the Scottish economist John Law (1671-1729), who served as Contrô...

The second edition of this early day-trader's guide, revised from the 1924 issue to take into account the crash of 1929. The Hess Collection notes...

Gold exchange listings. The first section features daily high-low price quotation tables followed by book's rear numbered pages which provides a li...

Early Wall Street novella in which an innocent upstate New York carpenter's son, Billy Hazard, is ruined by a failed short-selling trade: 'It is on...

Government sponsored gambling. A handbill advertising tickets and shares in the state lottery of 1780. In this instance 16,021 prizes were issued a...

A fascinating survival from the Taishō Democracy, a period of liberal reform and political renewal in Japan lasting from 1912 until 1926, which ul...

The new york stock exchange in 1936. Two fine photographs of the American Stock Exchange.In 1908, the New York Curb Market Agency was established, ...

Icon of Modernism. An iconic image of Wall Street and a turning point in modern photography.Wall Street depicts a scene of everyday life in Manhatt...

Exchange rates at the end of the Bourbon Restoration. A rare chart giving the currency exchange rates for 60 cities and 36 countries across the wor...

Subscribers edition. Rare and important manual for trading.Richard Wyckoff (1873-1934) is one of the legends of Wall Street. At the turn of the twe...

South sea bubble. The now notorious South Sea Company was established in 1711 in an attempt to replicate the success achieved by the East India. Un...