Man Own Broker Guide Stock Exchange by Mortimer Thomas (32 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Eleventh Edition. Duodecimo. 4.75 x 7 in. xxiv, 263 pp. Very good in a rebound leather binding with marbled boards and leather corners. Several pages from the preface are loosed and laid-in but remain bound together. That said, the remainder of the book and binding is firm. The pages remain largley free and clear of foxing and other marks, excpet for the front free endpaper and adjoining pages. The original fold-out equation table is still affixed at the front of the book and has little to no wear. An early and excellent copy of an eighteenth century financial tell-all.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. In-8, XXII, [2], 251, [1] pp. Bound before: "A New Book of Interest, Containing Accurate Tables Calculated to a Farthing, at Three, Three and Half, Four, and Five per Cent. From One Pound to Five Hundred, and from One Day to Sixty, also from One to Twelve Months. Giving Plain Directions for casting up Interest at other Rates, and other Tables equally useful." London: Printed for G. Robinson, 1781. 39 pp. Cont. calf (binding rubbed, front hinges slightly cracked, paper somewhat toned and spotted). The 9th edition of a popular guide to dealing on the stock exchange (the first edition was published in 1761).

ISBN-13: 9781584779315 ISBN-10: 1584779314. Mortimer, Thomas. Every Man His Own Broker; or, A Guide to the Stock-Exchange. In Which the Several Classes of the Public Funds, Commonly Called the Stocks, are Distinctly Explained . With an Appendix, Containing Exact Lists Of the Holidays--Payment of Dividends--Expences of Transacting Business in the Funds--Miscellaneous Information: And Directions to Strangers to Find Their Way Readily to the Different Offices at the Bank, South-Sea, And India Houses. London: W.J. and J. Richardson, 1801. xxiv, 257 pp. Plus Appendix and fold-out frontispiece "Table of Equation." Reprinted 2009 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779315; ISBN-10: 1584779314. Attractive smyth-sewn cloth hardcover. New. $85. * Reprint of the 13th edition considerably improved. This popular guide was first published in 1761 and was later translated into German, Dutch, French and Italian. It appeared at a time when Great Britain was codifying its position as the most sophisticated commercial empire in the world. At the time of the eleventh edition stock in the East India Company held an allure comparable to shares in internet start-ups in the mid-1990s. As his lengthy sub-title title suggests, Mortimer [1730-1810] was critical of brokers and hostile toward speculators and jobbers. However, his detailed advice offers one of the best accounts of stock trading in the second half of the eighteenth century.

Eleventh edition, "considerably improved". Folding table. xxxiv, 263 [1] pp. 8vo. " to teach astonished Britons, the amazing art of thrusting their hands into the fire without burning their fingers" (from the author's preface). Every Man His Own Broker was an enormously popular work, first published in 1761 and in print in numerous editions through 1801. Mortimer was motivated to write the book by his own considerable losses in the market in 1756. Kress B.2162 Contemporay tree calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering piece. Wear to spine ends,hinge neatly repaired, internally fine. Contemporary bookplates of Robert Pick and John Bell and one later bookplate Folding table. xxxiv, 263 [1] pp. 8vo Eleventh edition, "considerably improved".

London, 1791. 11th ed. (illustrator). London, 1791. 11th ed. Every Man His Own Broker: A Popular Eighteenth-Century English Handbook Mortimer, Thomas [1730-1810]. Every Man His Own Broker: Or, A Guide to the Stock-Exchange. In Which the Nature of Several Funds, Vulgarly Called the Stocks Is Clearly Explained, And Accurate Computations are Formed of the Average Value of East India Stock for Several Years, From the Current Year. The Mystery and Iniquity of Stock-Jobbing is Laid Before the Public, In a New and Impartial Light. The Method of Transferring Stock, And of Buying and Selling; The Several Government Securities, Without the Assistance of a Broker, Is Made Intelligible to All Persons Concerned; And an Account is Given of the Laws in Force Relative to Brokers, Clerks of the Bank, &c. With Directions How to Avoid the Losses that are Frequently Sustained by the Destruction of Bank Notes, India Bonds, &c. By Fire, And Other Accidents. Also, An Historical Account of the Origin, Progress, And Present State of Public Credit, Of the National Debt, Both Principal and Interest, Of Banking, And of the Sinking-Fund; With Advice to Adventurers in the State-Lotteries. To Which is Added, A Supplement, Containing Rules for Forming a Judgment of the Real Causes of the Rise or Fall of the Stocks; New Observations on the Payment of the Dividends; The Equation, And Other Useful Tables. London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1791. xxiv, 263, [1] pp. Engraved fold-out "Table of Equation." 12mo (6-7/8" x 4-1/8"). Contemporary sheep, carefully rebacked and re-cornered, lettering piece and gilt fillets to spines, hinges mended, negligible toning to text. Faint pencil marks to margins in some places, interior otherwise clean. An excellent copy. $1,000. * Later edition, "Considerably Improved." This popular guide was first published in 1761 and was later translated into German, Dutch, French and Italian. It appeared at a time when Great Britain was codifying its position as the most sophisticated commercial empire in the world. At the time of the eleventh edition stock in the East India Company held an allure comparable to shares in internet start-ups in the mid-1990s. As his lengthy sub-title title suggests, Mortimer was critical of brokers and hostile toward speculators and jobbers. However, his detailed advice offers one of the best accounts of stock trading in the second half of the eightee.