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Life Insurance & Social Security

(A Foundational Treatise). Price, Richard. Observations on reversionary payments; on schemes for providing annuities for widows, and for persons in old age; on the method of calculating the values of assurances on lives; and on the national debt. To which are added, Four essays on different subjects in the doctrine of life-annuities and political arithmetick. London: T. Cadell, 1783. 8vo. 2 vols. I: xl, 378 pp. II: [2], 324 pp., [1 (blank)] f., [2], 95, 24 (index) pp.
$1000.00

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In addition to the dedication page, and prefaces to the first, third, and fourth editions, these volumes also include “additional notes and essays, a collection of new tables, a history of the sinking fund, a state of the public debts in January 1783, and a postscript on the population of the kingdom.” First published in 1771.

• ESTC T12986; Goldsmiths-Kress 12495. Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, edges of boards tooled in gilt. Joints cracked and weakly holding. Covers darkened along top and outer edges; leather lost on corners. Light foxing to a few early and later leaves, including title-pages; offsetting from leather affecting only first three and final three leaves, at edges. Each volume pressure-stamped on the title-page and one other page. Title-page rectos marked with small inked initials in upper right corner, versos rubber-stamped with a five-digit number. Penciled notation at bottom margin of p. xxx (vol. I). Now housed in a blue cloth clamshell box with gilt-stamped leather labels. (24415)

“If You Have a Dollar, or Work for One,
YOU are Interested in the Contents ofThis Book”

Davies, Thomas Alfred. How to make money, and how to keep it. New York: G.W. Carleton & Co.; London: S. Low, Son & Co., 1867. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). [4], [ix]–322, [10 (adv.)] pp.
[SOLD]

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• Not in Goldsmiths'-Kress. Publisher's textured violet cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding cocked, cloth rubbed and faded, spine sunned. Front hinge (inside) cracked, back hinge tender. Ex–social club library: call number on front pastedown, front free endpaper lacking, rubber-stamp on title-page and several others; no other markings. Some light smudges, pages mostly clean. Very interesting reading from a variety of perspectives. (26503)

Culinary Economy!

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The Metropolitan Life cook book. New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 1922. 8vo. 64 pp.
$25.00

• Brown, Culinary Americana, 2819g. Publisher's printed paper wrappers; upper outer corner slightly bumped, spine extremities showing minor rubbing. Pages age-toned, four with areas of offsetting from laid-in newspaper recipe clippings; clean. An attractive copy, bearing the stamp of the distributing Metropolitan agent (Schenectady, N.Y.) on the title-page. (26052)

Philadelphia-Area FIRE Insurance

(Mutual Assurance Company). The deed of settlement of the Mutual Assurance Company, for insuring houses from loss by fire, in and near Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Pr. by W. Fry, 1818. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). 15, [1 (blank)] pp.
$275.00

• Early and uncommon American insurance item, with a nice woodcut title-page vignette of a tree. The company was originally founded in 1784 and incorporated in 1786; it produced its first deed of settlement in 1801, the text of which is here amended to conform with changes made to the original act of incorporation.

In libraries, this is a common item on microfilm—very uncommon, as a reality.

• Shaw & Shoemaker 44957. Stitched in paper wrappers, front wrapper with printed paper label; pencilled notations to upper margin of front wrapper, small smudge to back wrapper. Ownership inscription to front fly-leaf. A little foxing only.

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How to Get to the1939 World's Fair
(How Not to Worry When You Get There)

The Royal-Liverpool Groups for Security and Service. Welcome to the World's Fair New York 1939. [New York]: Royal Liverpool Groups, 1939. Folio (54.5 cm, 21.5"). 1 fold. map.
[SOLD]

“Your AUTOMOBILE — CAMERA and PERSONAL EFFECTS will be exposed to many hazards of loss or damage during your trip to the fair.”

The promotional map of Manhattan focuses on the Fair but also locates night and dinner clubs, theaters, movie houses, museums and other points of interest; a large map of automobile routes is given, as is a smaller map of the subway system. The map is contained in itoriginal color-printed protective folder stamped “With the compliments of Ralph C. Bulkley . . . The Seaboard Insurance Company of Maryland.”

• Folder darkened and spotted; two exterior map panels slightly faded, map otherwise clean and bright. (24644)

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