Explicacion de los Pesos y Medidas [Bound with Three Related Titles]

Mexico; Currency; Weights and Measures

Erscheinungsdatum: 1857

Beschreibung

Rare Titles Relating to the Adoption of Decimal Coinage in Mexico [Mexico]. [Currency]. [Weights and Measures]. Ministerio de Fomento. Explicacion de los Pesos y Medidas por el Sistema Metrico Decimal. Guadalajara: Tipografia del Gobierno, A Cargo de Ignacio Gutierrez Cortes, 1857. 53 pp. Quarto (8-1/2" x 5-3/4"). [Bound with] Sistema Metrico-Decimal: Tablas que Establecen la Relacion que Existe Entre los Valores de las Antiguas Medidas Mejicanas y las del Nuevo Sistema Legal, Formadas en el Ministerio de Fomento, Conforme a la ley de 15 de Marzo de 1857. Guadalajara: Tip. del Gob., A Cargo de Ignacio Gutierrez Cortes, 1857. xx, 40, [1] pp. Quarto (8-1/2" x 5-3/4"). [And] Banda, Longinos. Explicacion del Nuevo Sistema Decimal de Pesos y Medidas, Para el Uso de los Alumnos de las Escuelas Primarias, Por Longinos Banda. Guadalajara: Tip. Economica de Vidaurri, 1865. 14 pp. 12mo. (6" x 3-1/2"). [And] Sierra, Esteban. Coleccion de Tablas para Facilitar los Calculos Aritmetico-Comerciales. Guadalajara: Tip. Economica de Luis P. Vidaurri, 1865. 43 ff. Folding table. Quarto (8-1/2" x 5-3/4"). Pamphlets bound into later quarter reversed calf over paper-covered boards. Typewritten title label and owner label to spine. Light rubbing to extremities, some soiling to boards, corners bumped. Light browning, early notes in pencil to a few leaves, early owner stamp to front free endpaper. Ex-library. Location label to spine, stamps to title pages, annotations to their versos. Attractive copies of four rare titles. $500. * Only editions. Mexico devised a system of decimal coinage in 1857 and began to introduce decimal-denominated currency during the 1860s. This was a gradual process that was not completed until 1897. The four pamphlets in this volume relate to legal, commercial and practical aspects of that transition. OCLC locates 1 copy of the first work (University of New Mexico) and no copies of the others.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Explicacion de los Pesos y Medidas [Bound with Three Related Titles]
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 1857
• Bindung: Hardcover
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Antiquarian & Scholarly