Collecties

Aanwinsten 2003

November 2003

• HERON DE VILLEFOSSE, A.M. Mémoire sur l'état actuel des usines à fer de la France, considérées au commencement de l'année 1826, avec un supplément relatif à la fin de cette meme année, ... (Imprimerie de Mme Huzard : Paris, 1826) 7 tables (3 folding), ii, 124 pp.
  • A. Gerits & Son, Amsterdam
• TEXIER-OLIVIER, L. Statistique générale de la France, publiée ... Département de la Haute-Vienne (Chez Testu : Paris, 1808) folding map, in color, tables, 559 pp.
  • Important addition to our collection statistics in France, 1789-1815. In: Perrot, L'Age d'or de la statistique régionale française (an IV-1804) no. 719
    A. Gerits & Son, Amsterdam

Oktober 2003

• CLARK, Nathaniel G., a.o. A Scale of Prices for Job Work, on old ships. Carefully arranged and compiled by Nathaniel G. Clark, Richard W. Marks, James Mallett, and others for the shipwrights of the River Thames (W.Wilson : London, 1825) [8], 164, [4] p.; handwritten additions and tables
  • Bernard Quaritch, London

September 2003

• VANDEN BOGAERDE, Donaes Specie-boekxken vervattende een kortbondig onderwys met een uytgerekent tafelken hoedanig ieder hem zal reguleren in het ontfangen, uytgeven enden wisselen van specien van gelde ... Zeer dienstig voor alle kooplieden, rentiers, winkeliers, en alle andere persoonen (Brugge: by Pterus De Sloovere, 1762) unpaged
  • Eveneens in deze band: Tafel van intrest waer in lichtelyk gevonden konnen worden de intresten, ofte verloopen van alderhande renten ... / gemaekt door Donaes Vanden Bogaerde (Brugge: by Petrus De Sloovere, s.a.) unpaged
  • Antiquariaat Theo de Boer, Zandpol

Juli 2003

• LEWIS, Joseph Slater The Commercial Organisation of Factories. A handbook for the use of manufacturers, directors, auditors, engineers, managers, secretaries, accountants, cashiers, estimate clerks, prime cost clerks, bookkeepers, draughtsmen, students, pupils, etc. (London and New York, 1896) pp. xxxvi, 540; with diagrams
  • First edition. Joseph Slater Lewis [1852-1901] played only a small part in the story of the pioneers who strove to make industrial management an integral part of the strucure of British industry. But what is lacking in quantity is amply balanced by richness of interest. Lewis wrote one book, The Commercial Organisation of Factories, published simultaneously in London and New York in 1896, and hailed by the Institution of Electrical Engineers as "a monument to its author and a boon to all who desire to organise their manufacture on sound commercial lines."
    
    The date of publication is interesting - 1896, the year after the appearance of F. W. Taylor's first paper giving an outline of what was later to become The Principles of Scientific Management. Lewis had probably never heard of Taylor, but he was expounding a method of management, with all its procedures explained in detail, that can well claim to be an advance application of Taylor's later principles' (Urwick & Brech, p. 72).
    Bernard Quaritch, London

April 2003

• The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry, in all its branches; containing the various methods of cultivating and improving every species of land, according to the prevepts of boththe old and new husbandry ... Illustrated with a great variety of folio copper-plates, finely engraved; exhibiting all the instruments used in this necessary art; particularly those lately invented, and presented to the society for the encouragement fo arts, etc in London; many of which have never yet appeared in any work of this nature. The second edition, Corrected and Improved (Printed for R. Baldwin ... : London 1769)
  • Johan Beek, Barneveld

Maart 2003

• VALLEYRE, G.A. Histoire des divers changemens et mutations des monnoyes en France: Ou leur differente valeur depuis 1666 jusqu'à présent ... (A Paris, Chez Claude Cellier, 1705) 38, (2) pp. and 276 unnumbered leaves
  • First edition. "Cet ouvrage n'est pas une Relation étudiée, c'est un Recueil & un Abregé de tous les Edits, Declarations du Roy, & Arrests du Conseil qui ont été donnez sur le fait des Monnoyes depuis 1666 jusqu'à present." These texts are given in full with a summary printed partly in italics and partly in small type in the margin. The Tarif Général contains printed tables of conversion.
    A. Gerits & Son, Amsterdam
• [MAGENS, Nicolaus] Versuch über Assecuranzen, Havereyen und Bodmereyen insgemein; und über verschiedene hierbeygefügte wirckliche Vorfälle und deren Berechnungen insbesondere nebst einer Sammlung der vornehmsten alten und neuen Verordnungen ... von einem Kaufmanne in London (Hamburg : Konrad König, 1753) xxii, 1331, [1] pp.
  • First edition of Magens' important work on the insurance of ships. Also published as An Essay on Insurances in London, 1755. Magens was a German merchant who lived for many years in England and gained a great reputation in commercial matters. His (also in the EHB collection) showed a deep insight into trade mechanisms, and was hightly esteemed by Adam Smith.
    Donation Verbond van Verzekeraars.
    Bernard Quaritch, London

Januari 2003

• Almanach du commerce de Paris, des Départements de l'Empire Français et des principales villes du Monde. Année 1814. XVIIe Année / par J. de la Tynna, de la Société d'Encouragement pour l'industrie nationale (Paris : chez J. De La Tynna, [1813]). 8° 1088 p., 8 p. [= Catalogue des ouvrages qui se trouvent au Bureau de l'Almanach du commerce et du Journal de la Jurisprudence commerciale]
  • Jean-Jacques Magis, Paris.
• HAMILTON, Robert An Introduction to Merchandize. Containing a Compleat System of Arithmetic. A System of Algebra. Forms and Manner of Transacting Bills of Exchange. Book-keeping in Various Forms. An Account of the Trade of Great Britain, and the Laws and Practices relating to Sale, Factorage, Insurance, Shipping &c. The Fourth Edition, corrected and revised .... Fourth Ed. (Edinburgh: printed by and for J. Hunter, For G.G. and J. Robinson, and T. Kay, London ... 1799) 8vo, pp. vii, [1] blank, 552, 19 supplement
  • Influential and popular introduction to book-keeping, which had first been published in 1777-79. Such was the importance of this book that the book-keeping section was chosen in 1797 as the basis for the article on book-keeping in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. There were five editions by 1802.
    "The most interesting part of Hamilton's work is the chapter entitled 'Practical book-keeping' where Hamilton examines 'varieties of the Italian method". He explains that the 'nature of the business' may make variations on the classical system proper and that he intends only to give some examples so that the learner will 'acquire a readiness in selecting or inventing proper ones, suited to every circumstance' (Bywater and Yamey, p. 186) His examples are varied and sometimes very complex with an emphasis on economic calculation.
    The mathematician and political economist Robert Hamilton (1743-1829) was successively professor of natural philosophy and of mathematics at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and is best known, besides the present work, for his Inquiry concerning the Rise and Progress, the Redemption and Present State of the National Debt of Great Britain, published at Edinburgh in 1813.
    Pickering & Chatto, London