On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold: The Commercial and Social Consequences Which May Ensue, and the Measures Which It Invites by Chevalier, Michel) Cobden, Richard (trans) - 1968

Greenwood Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket (gold, money, currency question) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

New York: D. Appleton, 1859. First American Printing. Hardcover. Fair. Publisher's cloth, fair to good with wear along spine and outer joints, front inner hinge beginning to crack, owner's name on pastedown and old bookseller's large crude pencil price on pastedown, too. 211 pp.

New York: D. Appleton, 1859. First American Printing. Hardcover. Fair. Publisher's cloth, good with light wear to spine ends, contents very good and clean. 211 pp.

D Appleton & Company, 346 & 348, Broadway, New York, 1859. 1st US edition.. Hardback. Blind tooled original cloth, VG+, 211pp+4pp publishers adverts, spine a little faded & a small amount of wear at the head of the spine with slight loss, occasional foxing to the page margins, 2 1860s related newspaper clippings tipped in on the endpapers, ownership signature of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck on the pastedow. A nice copy. Study of the effect of a fall in the value of gold on other commodity prices where gold is used to set the standard of value. The author, Michel Chevalier [ 1806 - 1879 ] french economist & free market liberal is best know for his co-authoring, with Richard Cobden, the so called 'Cobden - Chevalier' treaty of 1860 which saw a relaxation of trade restrictions & tariffs between Britain and France. Gulian Crommelin Verplanck [ 1786 - 1870 ], New York senator & politician, also noted for his literary involvement with the 'Knickerbocker Group'.

Manchester, Ireland; London, Smith; Edinburgh, Black, 1859. Hardcover. .. Royal octavo. Pp. xvi, 196. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's full pebbled cloth, decoration embossed in blind on both sides, spine gilt, faded. A good copy. ~ Third edition. From the Literary Association of the Bank of England with original note pasted inside cover. Michel Chevalier (1806-1879) predicted as early as 1857 the decline in the value of gold. Among his many other important publications are "Cours d'économie politique" (1842-44), and "Monnaie" (1850). G-4 OUT

Alexr. Ireland and Co., 1859. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xvi, 196pp. Octavo. Original red cloth boards, with faintly embossed outline and decoration on boards. Gilt title on spine. Corners, head and tail of spine are slightly bumped. Top foredge dustsoiled. Very minor foxing throughout. Textblock is tight. very good Originally produced in French, translated by Richard Cobden. 1859

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1859. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Signed by author. First American edition. 1859 autograph letter signed by author laid in, explaining to a friend how an illness and other eventualities prevented social visits. Rebacked with original backstrip laid down, minimal pencil marginalia. 211, [4] pp. Translated from the French with a new preface by Richard Cobden. Michel Chevalier was a French engineer, statesman, economist and free market liberal whose 1837 work Des interets materiels en France earned him influence and a position as professor of political economy at the College de France. Together with Richard Cobden and John Bright he prepared the free trade agreement of 1860 between the United Kingdom and France, which is still called the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty.