History of Banking and Banks, from the Bank of Venice to the year 1883, including the establishment and progress of the present national banking system of the United States by Sidney Dean
Boston, Pelham Studios, 1884. Large folio, thick boards, 204 pages, well illustrated + Second Part with approximately 400 unpaginated additional pages of Portraits and Bigraphical Sketches with portraits and biography of most important United States bankers and their banks. Very limited luxorious edition. Very Rare.
Condition: Front and back boars separated from the binding. Binding still holding well, some minor foxing, pages mostly very clean, tissue gards all illustrations. In general good to very good condition, but 100% complete. Rare.
More detailed description from previous owner:
History of Banking and Banks From the Bank of Venice, Founded A.D. 1171, to the Year
1883, Including the Establishment and Progress of the Present National Banking
System of the United States, With Important Statistical Information Connected
Therewith. Sidney Dean. Folio. xii p., 1 l., 204 p. 9 pl. (incl. front.) 27 port. Full beige cloth
with title in blue on top board and in gilt on spine, book is in very poor condition, with boards
detached, tears and loss to cloth at head and foot of spine and hinges, corners bumped with
loss, tears and loss of cloth at edges of boards and at spine, soiling and sunning to cloth, aeg,
foxing to prelims but all else clean. First edition. Boston: Pelham Studios, 1884.