A Hundred Thousand Dollars in Gold. How to Make It. A Practical Narrative Suggesting How to Use, and Not Abuse it, How to Gain, and how to Lend it; How to Keep, and not to Lose it; How to Increase, and how Spend it.

Burnham, Geo. P.

Verlag: W.J. Holland, 1875

Beschreibung

A Hundred Thousand Dollars in Gold. How to Make It. A Practical Narrative Suggesting How to Use, and Not Abuse it, How to Gain, and how to Lend it; How to Keep, and not to Lose it; How to Increase, and how Spend it. By Cap. Geo. P. Burnham, Fully Illustrated, W.J. Holland, Springfield, Mass., 1875, frontispiece with numerous black and white illustrations, pictorial decorative cloth, 8.25 x 5.75 , 8vo. In good condition. Nicely preserved. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing to corners and ends. Light abrasions along joints with minor soiling to surface of cloth. Gilt coins and letters are bright and clean. A lovely, late Victorian binding. End papers clean with only an old hand signature of A.L. Gibbs on the fly. Tissue guard on frontis irregularly folded. Internally good with light toning and minor instances of foxing. Rear end paper chipped with loss at top right corner. Free of known markings. Binding tight and intact. All edges gilt. Please see photos. No other copies found. First edition of this work that mixes fiction and 19th-century historical fact and explains how to make (and lose) a fortune, illustrated with dozens of in-text and full page engravings! Accomplished 19th-century businessman George P. Burnham engages with real events to create a compelling factionalized narrative about how to successfully make money. Chapters touch on events ranging from the Great Fire of New York to the Panic of 1837 to the economic turmoil of 1875, Burnham uses his characters to illustrate principles of money including how to use it, lend it, how to save it and how to spend it. He discusses prominent men of wealth including John Jacob Aster, Cornelius Vanderbilt, P.T. Barnum and many others. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers RAREA1875BOQR

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Titel: A Hundred Thousand Dollars in Gold. How to ...

Verlag: W.J. Holland

Erscheinungsdatum: 1875

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

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