Money and civilization: or, a history of the monetary laws and systems of various states since the dark ages, and their influence upon civilization.
London.
George Bell and Sons, 1886.
First edition.
8vo.
xxxviii, [2], 431, [1], 3pp, [1]. With a half-title and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's olive green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Hinges exposed, scattered spotting.
The first British edition of American political economist and numismatist Alexander Del Mar's (1836-1926) historical survey of monetary laws from the 'Dark Ages of Europe' to the nineteenth-century and impact of Napoleonic Wars, the Californian Gold Rush, and 'Negro slavery' in the Americas.
£ 750.00
Antiquates Ref: 28424
