A rare political pamphlet promoting the first American bond-drive to finance the newly declared Irish Republic.The bonds were issued as part of th...

A scarce mail order booklet for 'Books by Babson', the American economist and temperance campaigner who founded the eponymous Babson's Reports in ...

Inscribed by the author to prohibitionist leader Earl Dodge. A reflection on electoral defeat by Roger Babson (1875-1967), an economist and tempera...

A curious post-crash guide urging novice investors to undertake a 'course of practical instruction' before entering the 'man-made machine known in...

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...

A rare investor's guide published by the Carlisle Investment Trust as promotional material, with a useful glossary of technical terms, tables of s...

'Our object in writing this book is to endeavour to show to persons who may contemplate trying their hand at Stock Exchange speculation, the impro...

The first edition of this fascinating work aimed at demystifying financial journalism for the 'uninitiated' investor. The author, Charles Duguid (...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The first edition of this much lauded account of the 1929 Wall Street crash by the Canadian-American economist John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006),...

'The Institute of Bankers in Scotland, the Society of Accountants in Edinburgh, and the Institute of Accountants and Actuaries in Glasgow have arr...

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...

Novelist's son commits mining fraud. The first edition of this pamphlet promoting investment in the fictitious mining company Solomon Columbus Rhod...

Cotton futures. A dissertation on cotton futures and their impact on the cotton industry by Hans Heizmann, submitted for the degree of Doctor juris...

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...