HISTOIRE de l'ORIGINE & du PROGRÈS des REVENUS ECCLÉSIASTIQUES - Où il est traité selon l'ancien et le nouveau Droit de tout ce qui regarde les Matières Bénéficiales, de la Régale, des Investitures des Nominations et des autres Droits attribués aux Princes. Par Jerome à COSTA [Richard SIMON].

FRANCFORT, Chez Frederic Arnaud, M. DC. LXXXIV (1684). FIRST EDITION. Text in French.

(The first English edition was published in 1685, under the title: The HISTORY of the ORIGINAL and PROGRESS of ECCLESIASTICAL REVENUES - Wherein is Handled According to the Laws, Both Ancient and Modern, Whatsoever Concerns Matters Beneficial, The Regale, Investitures, Nominations, And Other Rights Attributed to Princes. Written in French by a Learned Priest and now done into English.)

Contemporary calf covered boards, five raised spine bands, leather spine title label, gilt designs on spine, edges stained speckled red, 3.5x6 inches. Pagination: [4], 346, [10] pages, including an Index. Publisher's woodcut device on the title-page plus two engraved initial letters.

A pseudonymously published work on the history of Church Revenues and Finances. Simon, an accomplished Hebrew scholar, was later lauded by the New Catholic Encyclopedia as the "father of Biblical criticism".

GOOD Condition: The covers' leather is rubbed, the front hinge is split but holding well with the cord binding, overall the covers remain sturdy and attractive; internally, there is a small old French bookseller's label (Victor Pineau / Libraire / Beauvais) and a handwritten number on the front pastedown, a previous owner's signature and an institutional blind-stamp on the title page, offsetting to the margins of the endpapers and early leaves, otherwise complete, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A nice, presentable copy.

About RICHARD SIMON (from Wikipedia): "Richard Simon, b.1638 d.1712, was a French priest, a member of the Oratorians, an influential biblical critic, and orientalist and a controversialist."

COMPTE RENDU AU ROI, par M. Necker (Monsieur Necker), Directeur Général des Finances. Au mois de Janvier 1781. Imprimé par ordre de Sa Majesté.

(Report to the King, by M. Necker, Director General of Finance. In the month of January 1781. Printed by order of His Majesty.)

Paris, de L'Imprimerie du Cabinet du Roi (the Printing Office of the King's Cabinet), M.DCC.LXXXI (1781).

Hardcovers, marbled paper covered boards, 8x10 inches. Pagination, 2 blank leaves, title-page, [2] table-of-contents, 116 pages. Contains TWO COLOR FOLD-OPEN MAPS of FRANCE showing various tax districts. One is a gabelle map (a tax on salt) and the other titled Carte Des Traites. They are quite lovely, each suitable for framing imho. There is also a large fold open table. The two maps are often missing in copies of this book.

FAIR condition, the covers are well worn, with scrapes, chipping, rubs, etc. Internally, the inner hinge is split, separating, and shaky,

but the pages remain bound with the three cord bindings; the front pastedown has a French paper company notice pasted on it; the blank front endpapers have tears and pieces missing at the corners, and a previous owner's name and inscription in French: "Stephen Bates / mil huit cent et onze / Juni vingt huit (June 28, 1811)", the table-of-contents leaf is torn at the bottom affecting the bottom couple of lines, the fold-open table at the rear has a few inch closed tear; there is some foxing throughout; but the pages overall are bright, clean, clear and fully legible.

The Compte Rendu Au Roi is one of the most important documents relating to the finances of pre-revolutionary France. It is the work of Mr. Jacques Necker, then Minister of Finance for Louis XVI. In the midst of the American War of Independence, and the immense debt France was taking on as a participant in the War, Necker presents in detail the financial situation of France.

About JACQUES NECKER and the COMPTE RENDU AU ROI (from Wikipedia):

******Jacques Necker, b.1732 d.1804, was a Genevan banker and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent.

Necker held the finance post between July 1777 and 1781, when in the latter year, he earned widespread recognition for his unprecedented decision to publish the COMPTE RENDU - thus making the country's budget public - a novelty in an absolute monarchy where the state of finances had always been kept a secret. Necker was dismissed within a few months of its publication. By 1788, the inexorable compounding of interest on the national debt brought France to a fiscal crisis and Necker was recalled to royal service. His dismissal once again on 11 July 1789 was a factor in causing the Storming of the Bastille.

By 1781, France was suffering financially, and as director general of the royal treasury he was blamed for the rather high debt accrued from the American Revolution. After Necker had shown Louis XVI his annual financial report, the king tried to keep its contents secret. Necker met the challenge aggressively by making the Compte Rendu Au Roi public. It is his most influential work, and brought him instant fame, Necker summarized governmental income and expenditures to provide the first record of royal finances ever made public. The Account was meant to be an educational piece for the people, and in it, he expressed his desire to create a well-informed, interested populace.******

STOCK EXCHANGE LAW - With SPECIAL REFERENCE to the NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE and NEW YORK LAW, by Samuel P. Gilman, Member of the New York Bar. Published by The Ronald Press Company, New York, 1923. First Edition, with the date 1923 on the copyright page and no indication of additional printings. The Preface is dated New York, October 1, 1923. Hardcover book, no dustjacket, blue cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the spine, 6x8.5", 497 pages. VERY GOOD condition, 2 dime size dark spots on the front cover, the covers are rubbed at their edges and have

light wear to their corner tips and spine ends; there is a small previous owner's name stamp "A.L. Gath" on the front pastedown, and his signature on the title page; otherwise just lightly used and still tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, very nice copy.

THE LAW OF STOCKBROKERS : Including the Law Relating To Transactions For Customers on the New York Stock Exchange, by Douglas Campbell, of the New York Bar.

NEW YORK: Baker, Voorhis & Company, third edition, 1927.

Hardcovers, brown cloth covered boards, 4 raised spine bands, two leather spine title labels, 6x9 inches, xx + 259 pages. There is an early label "Baker, Voorhis & Co / Law Books / New York" on the upper corner of the front pastedown.

GOOD condition, the covers have a few scratches and some edge wear, else solid with bright title labels; internally there are numerous pencil marks, notes and underlinings throughout (perhaps by a 1927 stockbroker trying to stay out of trouble), otherwise the pages are just lightly toned with a small smudge mark here and there. A solid copy that was studiously read and marked.

1927 printings of this book are almost impossible to find. Perhaps stockbrokers burned all their copies after the 1929 crash, or took them with them when they jumped!

ASSESSED VALUES of REAL ESTATE in BOSTON. Published by the Boston Real Estate Board, 1954.

Lists the Address, Owner, Square Feet, Value of Land, Value of Building, and Total Assessed Value OF EVERY PROPERTY IN BOSTON. Categorized alphabetically by Street.

Hardcover Book, blue cloth covered boards, gilt titles and gilt ads on the covers and spine, 6x9 inches, 681 pages. Includes real estate related ads, roster of members, and a fold open list of rules to be followed by members.

This is an Original, Vintage, Boston Real Estate Book, published in 1954. Beware similar works that are photocopied or printed directly off a computer, sometimes being presented as a vintage book. Read descriptions carefully!

VERY GOOD condition, some light wear to the covers' edges, internally tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, nice copy.

See what you could have paid for any property in Boston in 1954.

Would look great on the shelf of anyone interested in Boston real estate.

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1955 ANNUAL REPORT of NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION, INC.

Paper covers, side stapled, 8.5x11 inches, 36 pages.

See the Military Industrial Complex at Work!!! Jets, Missiles, Atomic Power.

GOOD condition, shelf rubbing and light soiling to the covers, else tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

One of the earlier Annual Reports related to Boeing that I have seen.

About NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION (from Wikipedia):

******North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer, responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, and the XB-70, as well as Apollo command and service module, the second stage of the Saturn V rocket, the Space Shuttle orbiter and the B-1 Lancer.

Through a series of mergers and sales, North American Aviation became part of North American Rockwell, which later became Rockwell International and is now part of Boeing.******

GARNETT YOUNG AND ASSOCIATES, by Garnett Young. Self-Published, San Francisco, undated but known to be 1960. Printed by The Filmer Brothers Press, San Francisco. First Edition. Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, grey faux-leather covered boards, gilt titling on spine, 5.5" x 8.5", [xiv] +114 pages. Illustrated with a few b&w photographs. Basically an autobiography of the "Business Side" of Garnett Young and the pioneering electrical equipment companies with which he was associated, including Charles F. Sloane Co.; Brown, Spear, Sloane Co.; Simplex Wire & Cable; Telephone-Electric Equipment Co.; and his self named Garnett Young and Company. Condition: VERY GOOD book, just lightly used and still tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a GOOD MINUS dustjacket that has several 1" closed edge tears, creasing to the bottom margin, and some soiling, but is bright and still doing its job.

HISTORY OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE : IMPORTANCE OF STAKEHOLDER ACTIVISM, edited by Robert E. Wright, Wray Barber, Matthew Crafton, and Anand Jain.

COMPLETE SIX VOLUME SET.

Published by Pickering & Chatto (an imprint of Routledge), 2004. ISBN: 1851967699.

Six Hardcover Books, 6x9.5 inches. Pagination: 427, 407, 441, 438, 291, 411.

Includes numerous facsimile reprints of rare historic documents relating to shareholder activism and stakeholder governance. Many of these documents are reprinted here for the first time.

NEAR FINE condition: Volume 1 has a bump to the upper corner of the front cover and a light crease to the upper corner of the first ten pages; there is a previous owner's inconspicuous circular blind stamp to the half title page of Volumes 5 and 6 (Steven Mark Grafton); otherwise all six volumes are tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A lovely, complete set that feels barely used.

An important addition to the shelves of anyone interested in Shareholder Governance, Wall Street, Stocks, Bonds, Business Economics, or Public Finance.

These volumes are in hand and ready to ship.

From the Publisher:

******The company archives of England and America are rich repositories of original texts on the subject of governance, a selection of which are published here. Two major issues ripped from the headlines, Japan's prolonged economic slump and the recent Enron debacle in the United States, both point to the importance of corporate governance, the mechanisms that stakeholders use to ensure that their investments are properly used and that any sums owed them for the use of their resources are faithfully calculated and promptly paid in full. Corporate governance seeks, in short, the reduction of the principal agent problem within major business firms. The history of corporate governance, like the history of any subject, can help today's businesses in two ways. First, knowledge of the past can help prevent firms and policymakers from repeating past mistakes. Second, history is also rife with examples of how to do things right. Corporate governance in Britain and the United States in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was far from perfect, yet it was also far from being completely flawed. Anglo-American corporate governance, therefore, offers both warnings and lessons. These volumes offer a unique perspective on this fascinating historical topic. We present a comprehensive selection of texts drawn from the archives of corporations in England and America. Many of these texts are very rare and very few have ever been re-published before. Corporate governance is an interdisciplinary subject of interest to scholars of history, economics, business history and law. In short this edition fits into the library collection of any institution concerned with history or finance.******

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ARCHIVE of original HAND SIGNED LETTERS from PRESIDENTS & EXECUTIVES of MAJOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMPANIES, and others, in RESPONSE to an APPEAL by WILLIAM ZELLERBACH for DONATIONS to the UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND. The letters are all dated 1970 and are in response to an annual appeal for donations from William Zellerbach of Crown Zellerbach Corporation. Most letters are on printed company letterheads. The archive includes signed letters from: J. W. Hull, President, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph; Charles N. Huggins, President, SEE'S CANDIES; Peter N. T. Widdrington, President, LUCKY BREWERIES; Shermer L. Sibley, President, PG&E; Joseph E. Nolan, President, Weyerhaeuser Company; J.E. Gosline, Vice Chairman of the Board, STANDARD OIL COMPANY of CALIFORNIA; R.B. Sonne, Vice President, Del Monte Corp.; James R. Compton, Philanthropist; W. P. Murray Jr., President, Bank of Marin; Edgar F. Kaiser, Chairman of the Board, KAISER INDUSTRIES; A. B. Ordway, Executive, Kaiser, (Ordway Building in Oakland, was named after A.B. Ordway); Edward Bransten, President, MJB (Coffee); Edward J. Daly, President, WORLD AIRWAYS; Charles L. Gould, Publisher, San Francisco Examiner (Hearst Corporation); Richard E. Guggenheim, San Francisco, a partner in Heller Ehrman, White & McAuliffe; Morris Weisberger, Sailors' Union of the Pacific; JOHN F. HENNING, AFL-CIO; Werner Lewald, President, Transpacific Transportation Company; "Miss M. Conant" (Conant Family Foundation?); AND MANY MORE signed by various individuals working at a particular company, or not associated with any company. There are also copies of some of the letters sent out to various individuals and corporate heads. There are also some SIGNED typed notes, letters and hand written notes from William Zellerbach regarding various donations and letters received in response to the appeal for donations. In addition there are letters from JOHN PAUL, the Director of the UNCF Northern California Campaign, asking William Zellerbach if he would agree to be Chairman of the 1970 campaign, and telling him that it would take little work on his part (i.e. all the form letters would be written and printed for him, needing only his signature), and telling him that his name as Chairman would be of great help. It is clear that William Zellerbach took his position seriously, personalizing some of the appeals, and suggesting names for solicitation. The 1970 Northern California UNCF Campaign goal was $300,000 (equal to approximately $2 million today). The archive contains: (1) 45 SIGNED LETTERS written TO William J. Zellerbach in response to his (as Chairman for 1970) appeal for donations to the United Negro College Fund. Many of these letters are stapled to their envelopes. A few of the letters have handwritten notes on them by Bill Zellerbach. (2) 5 SIGNED typed letters BY William Zellerbach TO John Paul, Director of the UNCF campaign. The letters are Zellerbach's letterhead. They relate to various matters of the campaign. (3) 9 letters, some carbon copies, some original, regarding the recruiting of William Zellerbach to be Chairman of the 1970 campaign, his acceptance the position, and his approval of the form letter to be sent out. (4) A couple draft documents with numerous handwritten notes on them regarding how donations are to be handled ( i.e. accepted, put into the bank, etc.) (5) And some unsigned copies of solicitation letters that had been sent to various executives. All the letters are in generally GOOD condition, showing various signs of handling, but all remain bright and fully legible. A couple of the draft documents concerning the handling of donations were pieced together in strips, they are browned and show glue stains. A wonderful look at the Corporate and Individual Philanthropy in Northern California in 1970. The SIGNATURES of many of the areas Movers and Shakers make this quite a rare artifact. The generosity (and sometimes the amazing lack of it) is quite interesting.

AN OBSCURE FAMILY : THE BUFFETTS IN AMERICA, by DORIS BUFFETT.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the title page by the Author, DORIS BUFFETT, Warren Buffett's sister: "With best wishes / Doris Buffett".

Large format hardcover book in dustjacket, 9.5x13 inches, 272 pages. Illustrated throughout.

NEAR FINE book, tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a VERY GOOD dustjacket that has some creasing at the spine ends but is overall solid and bright. A lovely, very presentable copy.

Self-published, designed and produced by "Volume 3" (volume3.net), and printed by Capital Offset Co., Concord, New Hampshire, 2012. First and Limited Edition, limited to only 500 copies.

From the book designer's website:

******AN OBSCURE FAMILY : THE BUFFETTS IN AMERICA...Pages: 272, Trim size: 9.5 x 13 in., Illustrations: 213, Inks: Four-color, Text paper: 80# Mohawk Superfine, Binding: Smyth sewn and casebound, PRINT RUN: 500 COPIES.******

From the front dustjacket flap:

******An Obscure Family: The Buffetts in America is the culmination of Doris Buffett's ambitious project to compile her family's genealogy. Interwoven with her careful documentation of all standard genealogical records, one will find interesting commentary, historical accounts, hundreds of photographs, personal letters, pages from a marvelous children's story, diary entries, family bible pages, and more. This book is a gift to all Buffetts present and future.******

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THE ECONOMICS OF BUDGET DEFICITS Volume I and II. Edited by Charles K. Rowley, William F. Shughart II, and Robert D. Tollison. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics.

Contains 58 critical works by noted economic experts originally published between 1940 and 2000. The works are divided into the following parts: The History and Measurement of Budget Deficits; Classical Public Debt Theory; Keynesian Public Debt Theory; The Burden of Debt Re-Examined; Ricardian Equivalence in the Dock; Public Choice and Public Debt Theory and Evidence; Deficit Finance in Constitutional Perspective.

Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Massachusetts, 2002. First Edition. ISBN-10: 1858987989.

Two Volume Set, hardcovers, blue cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the front cover and spine, 6.5x9.5 inches, xlvii + 465 pages and xi + 564 pages. Each volume has a Name Index at the rear.

VERY GOOD condition, a pea size scrape to the front fold of the front cover, otherwise both books are sharp, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, very nice, two volume set.

An important work for anyone interested in economics and especially budget deficits.

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FIVE Original 19th Century Booklets on CORN LAWS. All are in FAIR condition, disbound, with signatures and pages loose but in proper order.

(1) THOUGHTS ON CORN LAWS as Connected with Agriculture, Commerce and Finance, by J. D. HUME (James Deacon Hume). LONDON: Printed for R.C. and J. Rivington, 1815. Disbound, signatures loose, ink stamped number on title page, last page soiled, edge wear, foxing and soiling here and there; nonetheless complete from title page through last page with text that is clear and bright throughout.

(2) A LETTER ON THE CORN LAWS, and on the MEANS of OBVIATING the MISCHIEFS and DISTRESS, which are RAPIDLY INCREASING, by THE RIGHT HON. LORD SHEFFIELD (John Baker Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield). LONDON: Printed for John Murray, 1815. Disbound, trimmed at the spine edge leaving all pages loose but in their proper order, the backside of the title page has an 1891 stamp of the New York Public Library and a stamp of the N.Y. Public Library Ford Collection, there is soiling to the title page and the last page, the inner pages are lightly toned and have corner creases, some edge wear, foxing and soiling here and there; complete from title page through last page with text that is clear and bright throughout.

(3) PRACTICAL MEASURES Finance, Corn, Poor Laws, Currency, Emigration, Law, Railways, and Education, by D. D. JAMESON. LONDON: Smith, Elder and Co., 1844. Disbound, signatures coming loose but still holding, title page has a 2 inch closed tear starting at the spine, inner pages are lightly toned and have corner creases, some edge wear, foxing and soiling here and there; complete from title page through last page with text that is clear and bright throughout.

(4) ADDRESS to the LANDOWNERS OF ENGLAND on the CORN LAWS, by VISCOUNT MILTON. LONDON: James Ridgway, fourth edition, 1832. Disbound, sewn binding still holding, ink stamped number on title page, early previous owner's signature and date on title page (Joseph Buckley / Exon. 1832), complete from title page through last page, pages are clear and bright throughout.

(5) THE CORN TRADE INVESTIGATED, and the SYSTEM of FLUCTUATIONS EXPOSED..., by Buxton Lawn. SALISBURY: Printed and Sold by J. EASTON, New Edition with Large Additions, 1801. Trimmed at the spine edge leaving all pages loose but in their proper order, the backside of the title page has an 1899 stamp of the New York Public Library; the title page is soiled, has some spotting, some chipping at the top edge, and a previous owner's signature and handwritten marks; the last page is soiled; the inner pages have some soiling, spotting, creasing, edge wear, and foxing here and there; nonetheless complete from title page through last page with text that is clear and bright throughout.

HANDBOOK of COMMUNICATIONS in CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING and TAKEOVERS. Edited by Clarke L. Caywood and Raymond P. Ewing. Includes papers from various experts in the field of corporate takeovers and corporate public relations.

Published by Prentice Hall, a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1992. First Edition, First Printing, with the number line starting at 1. ISBN: 0133740757.

Hardcover Book, no dustjacket as issued, 6x9 inches, 254 pages.

NEAR FINE condition, a bit of wear to the corner tips and spine ends, overall looks and feels unused, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

This book should be in the Communications Department of every corporation in America, since it seems they all are currently in the process of acquiring, being acquired, or hoping to be acquired.

PRIVATE PLACEMENT CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION MEMORANDUM / INVESTMENT PROSPECTUS for ACQUISITION of the PHOENIX COYOTES (now the ARIZONA COYOTES) by LOS ARCOS SPORTS, LLC. The Private Placement was being handled by SG COWEN SECURITIES CORPORATION. The ownership team was to be led by Steve Ellman, with Wayne Gretzky as part owner. Softcovers, 8.5x11 inches, xi + 119 pages, plus 23 pages of financial statements at the rear, pages printed on one side only. Illustrated with some color photographs, charts, graphs and tables, here and there throughout. GOOD condition, the upper front margin of the investment prospectus is creased, there is a V shaped tear to the top edge of the front cover and first page; otherwise a solid copy that is tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. An interesting, historic look at the state of the COYOTES NHL FRANCHISE in the year 2000. 100 Units and $1 Million a Unit. Count Me In! INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This book is will require additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.