8vo. xxvii, [1], 205pp, [3], 2pp. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed and marked. Endpapers browned.

A revised edition of American political economist Alexander Del Mar's (1836-1926) empirical study of the exchange, value, and regulation of moneys throughout history; first published in 1885.