A Treatise on Currency and Banking.
Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot, 1840. Second edition. Full Leather. 19 x 11.5 cm. 12mo. [4] xiv 323pp. Bound into full brown leather with black leather spine label. 4 pages of publisher's ads bound before the title page, the numbering implies that they were meant to be bound at the end. Covers have been professionally reattached with Japanese paper. Name on title page which bleeds into the preceding the following page. Scattered foxing. There is a faint damp stain to the inner edge of the page from the front free endpaper to page x. Uncommon. Very Good. Item #74479
First published in 1839 this is the expanded second edition. In this work, Raguet documents how bank inflation causes booms and busts and articulates how those cycles in which government does nothing come and go, while those in which government tries to help last and last. (Mises Institute).OCLC # 504329409.
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