[AMERICANA] ECONOMICA: A STATISTICAL MANUAL FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Small 8vo; bound in mottled calf which has been rebacked in japanese tissue; with the original morocco title label laid down; front end paper has been tipped back in (the end paper identifies Thompson as being in Salem, Washington County, Indiana and mostly he practices his signature on it,) with perhaps a later first blank leaf; the title page has been trimmed, not affecting the text; signature of J. S. Thompson from 1841 is on the title, The bookplate of "McClure Workingmen s Insitute" printed by the "True Republican" Rockville Ind. in 1857, and enumerating that Insitutes "Rules and Regulations" regarding books from its library, is found on the front pastedown.~~~Containing much "valuable information respecting the population and wealth of American (Sabin, 5956). We know that Jefferson had a copy, as two year later Blodget sent him an appendix of 4 leaves "chiefly respecting the Cotton manufactory" [www.founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-79]. Blodget referred to corporations as "minor republics", and argued that commercial ties -- "incorporated monied commonwealth associations" -- transformed otherwise quarrelsome citizens into co-investors with shared interests [Economica, 20]. An important treatise on the economic theories of the young Republic. (Sabin, 5956; Howes, B 537).

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Titel

[AMERICANA] ECONOMICA: A STATISTICAL MANUAL FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Verlag

Printed for the Author, City of Washington

Erscheinungsjahr

1806

Auflage

First Edition.

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