BANKING from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

New York: Irving Press, 1920. Staplebound. Otherwise good +. A booklet describing the origin, history and progress of the bank. 8 1/2 X 6", 23pp, tan card covers with text in brown and orange, staplebound. Cover dusty with some marks on lower front, internally clean.

Tasmania, 1829. Ephemera. Very good condition. A bank check made out to Mr. Wilkinson for Five pounds 17 shillings Sterling, to be transferred to account of James Kelly. On verso, manuscript accounting. In 1829, James Kelly [1791-1859], was most likely pursuing a successful business in whaling, banking and insurance after resigning from government service. "Kelly was an… Read more about this item

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1832. Paperback. Good + condition. Attributed to James Taylor [1788-1863], a British banker and author on finance. An early attempt at economic theory, which speculates as to the true nature of money and the best ways of securing the national financial system. Taylor became an anti-bullionist in response to the controversial Bullion… Read more about this item

New York: Privately printed, Brewer & Co., 1911. Paperback. Very good condition. 4 checks from the Bank of Newburgh dated 1838-9, plus a 47pp history of the bank entitled, The National Bank of Newburgh. A History of the First Century of this Banking Association under its various Charters, published by its Board of Directors to commemorate the completion… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, 1931. Fourth edition. Paperback. Very good overall. A volume originally published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the former Security Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles, February 11, 1889. Historic description of Los Angeles from its early days as a Spanish province to the late 1920's,… Read more about this item

Monticello, NY, 1834. A manuscript letter dated June 23rd, 1834 from J. Mones of Monticello to G.O. Fowler and George Cornwall of Newburgh, NY regarding the distribution of notes from the Highland Bank in Newburgh which had 'become limited east of the River' since the establishment of the Westchester Bank. He suggests that they should focus on Sullivan County… Read more about this item

New York: American Bank Note Co., 1876. Ephemera. Good + overall. Striking bank note engraved advertising broadside for the Great Falls Company, to be distributed at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, engraved by the leading high security engraving and printing firm of the day, the American Bank Note Company. The engraving company was founded in 1795;… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1933. Hardcover. Very good condition. White [1832-1918] was a U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator, who was the co-founder of Cornell University. Reprint of the 1923 edition, originally penned in 1896. Sml 8vo, printed paper boards, gilt text on front, 68 pp. Internally clean and bright, spine strong. VGC+.

Naples: Officine Grafiche Napoletane Francesco Gianni & Figli, 1978. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Many full page color plates of bank note engraving. Sml folio, xv, 374pp, 271 color illustrations of banknotes. Maroon gilt cloth with gilt title on spine, gilt crest (Banco di Napoli) on front cover; in the original acetate plastic wrappers, in the cloth… Read more about this item

Athens: Printed by "Pyrsos", 1931. Good overall. The author's copy. "An economic and commercial invention... for sale." A plan to get regular people out of the Depression. Contents include: The Don Louis Plan is for sale; The International Land Dollar; The Definition of Money; Labor and Capital; the International Commonwealth; Charter of Incorporation; By Laws; Members; Referendum; Loans;… Read more about this item

London: Effingham Wilson & Co, 1893. Very good condition. What the world now needs is to stop this artificial fall of prices and raise them slowly to a moderate level. The only practicable means of doing this is to restore the old law of coining silver as freely as gold and to let people pay their debts in… Read more about this item

Newburgh, New York, 1824. Paperback. Very good condition. A bank passbook for Silas K. Goodale (1798-1880) with the Bank of Newburgh, New York, the very first locally chartered bank in the city. All but two pages are blank. The accounting begins on February 14, 1824 and continues to November 29, 1825. The handwritten name "Silas K. Goodale" appears… Read more about this item

Hartford, Connecticut: Courant Office Press, 1849. Pamphlet. Bound with string. Center crease on front cover, age spots.. 52pp. Printed by order of the Senate. Report of three bank examiners, Nelson Brewster, Henry Taintor and Starr Ferry, who were required "to visit the several Banks in the state once in each year... and inquire whether they have been, and… Read more about this item

New York: Reform Club Sound Currency Committee, 1895. Hardcover. Good + condition. Magazine of the Reform Club of New York, these issues published in the midst of the Panic of 1893 - 1897 and the resulting international financial meltdown. The semi-monthly magazine, Vol. II, bound out of order but with continuous pagination, a total of 22… Read more about this item

1950. Pamphlet. Very good. Travel brochure in English, with a color map, folding brochure. Inside 'Welcome to Japan' describes the prewar name of the bank, Sumitomo, and goes on to describe the services of the current bank: Exchange Business, Domestic Circular Letter of Credit, Selling World Travellers Cheques and Circular Letters of Credit, and Miscellany. With a b&w… Read more about this item

Sydney: F H Booth and Son, 1931. Wraps. Pamphlet printed in Sydney, with much Australian content. The autor concludes: "In all this Australia can help and help greatly, and should set about it at once. It is not right to complain to London that she has left off lending new money to Australia, that is the business of investors… Read more about this item

Boston: True & Green, 1831. Good + overall. Written by Henshaw [1791 - 1852], who was the 14th United States Secretary of the Navy. Small 8vo, 47pp, disbound, clean.

24th Congress, 1st Session, HR no. 800. 8vo pamphlet, 103pp, disbound. Some red underlining.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1869. Ephemera. Good + overall. A crowded floor scene inside the market, people hanging over the gallery waving hands. 14 1/2 x 9 1/2" plus margins (quite close on left margin, but no loss). Black & white woodcut, slightly tanned.

1840. Ephemera. Very good condition. Attractive view of the street scene, carefully drawn to show brokers on the street, the buildings, a horse & carriage, street merchants. Uncommon view. 7 3/4 x 5" plus margins, b&w steel engraving.