‎Arthur Hailey‎
‎Bank‎

‎A Description of Present System of Bank Note Engraving, Showing its Tendency to Facilitate Counterfeiting: To which is added A New Mathod of Constucting Bank Notes to Prevent Forgery. - [THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK ON US PAPER MONEY]‎

‎New York, Ormsby, 1852. Folio. Original illustrated, richly gilt boards with a large gilt centre resembling a guilloche-gravure. Blindstamped corner-ornamentations and gilt lettering to boards as well. Old owner's inscription of ""Nissen & Parker/ 43 Mark Lane"" to front free end-paper and with a gift-inscription from H N Nissen, dated 1867, to first blank. VIII, 102 pp. + 13 engraved plates (including frontispiece, which is ""PLATE 5"") - complete. The 13 finely engraved plates demonstrate different technologies and depict bank notes, vignettes, and various design elements.‎

‎Very rare first edition of the most desirable and important book on American paper money. Ormsby’s magnum opus constitutes one of the most important works in American numismatic literature and is moreover one of the greatest rarities in this field. The work is revolutionary in counterfeiting history and is the first to propose a way of avoiding American counterfeit currency. As Ormsby states in the dedication “To the Presidents and Directors of the Banking Institutions of The United States”, this work aims “to set forth the greatest Perils to which their Circulation is exposed, and to furnish a Remedy, uniting Artistic Beauty, Economy, and Security against Counterfeiting”. The 13 magnificent plates depict geometric lathe work, figures printed in red, brown, and blue ink, and various bank notes, vignettes, and medallions as well as a depiction of ""An Easy Method of Counterfeiting"" and Perkins's ""New System."" “W.L. (Waterman Lilly) Ormsby (1809-1883) was a notable engraver, particularly recognized for his dedication to the reformation of currency production. While he had some formal training, most of his skills were honed through hours of hands-on work and experimentation in his workshop. He invented several ruling machines and transfer presses for improving the process of steel engraving. In addition, he is usually credited for the redesign of the five-dollar bill. Outside of banking notes, he assisted Samuel Morse with his telegraphic alphabet and provided engravings for Samuel Colt’s revolvers. In the end, Ormsby’s most influential contribution to the engraving trade was his personal crusade to bring attention to the proliferation of counterfeiting schemes in the U.S. In 1852, Ormsby published an impressive work on bank note engraving, the most extensive to date, with a particular focus on flaws in the current bank system and recommendations on how to counteract currency counterfeiters.” (Bachmann: W.L. Ormsby, Counterfeiting Exposed! From Harvard’s “The Shelf”). During his early life Waterman Ormsby lived at various times in Rochester, in Albany, where he engraved over his own name, and in Lancaster, Massachussets, where he worked for the firm of Carter, Andrews & Company. Finally he settled in New York City, where he became the proprietor of the New York Bank Note Company and one of the founders of the Continental Bank Note Company. “During the first quarter of the nineteenth century the process of bank-note engraving was cheapened and facilitated by the introduction of machinery, and by the end of the century hand-craftsmanship had been almost entirely superseded. Ormsby represented a curious combination of the two techniques. He was a versatile and accomplished inventor of machinery to facilitate the processes of engraving, but he was bitterly opposed to the complete replacement of the artist-craftsman. He held that notes should be engraved as a unit upon a single plate, with careful craftsmanship exerted on the design and interdependence of the composition. The counterfeiter would thus be foiled ""not because he does not know how the work is done, but because he can not do it”."" The present copy has an excellent provenance, as it has been in the possession of the London bank note engravers Nissen & Parker in 43 Mark Lane and has later been gifted by Nissen himself. Nissen & Parker not only did bank note engraving, but ale bonds, cheques, drafts, etc. and must have had great need of expertise on securing themselves against forgeries. This magnificent volume is of the utmost scarcity and only few complete copies have been on the market over the last 50 years.‎

‎Nizhny Novgorod City Public Bank. A Brief History of the Bank's Fifty Years of O‎

‎Nizhny Novgorod City Public Bank. A Brief History of the Bank's Fifty Years of Operation. 1864-1914 In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Nizhegorodskiy Nikolaevskiy gorodskoy obshchestvennyy bank. Kratkiy ocherk pyatidesyatiletney deyatel'nosti sushchestvovaniya banka. 1864-1914 Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).The essay describes the history of the Bank's establishment and opening its growth and progressive activities in the development of the operation the Bank's own financial operations the Bank's staff and the Management Board. The publication is uniquely placed as a reference material: the Bank's operating statements and balance sheets statements of general and cash flows profits capital growth over 50 years the Bank's maintenance costs balance sheets and so on. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb15131b9f311906fd‎

‎Bugrov A.V. State Bank of 1860 1917 In Russian (ask us if in doubt)./Bugrov A.V. Gosudarstvennyy bank 1860 1917 gg.‎

‎Bugrov A.V. State Bank of 1860 1917 In Russian (ask us if in doubt)./Bugrov A.V. Gosudarstvennyy bank 1860 1917 gg. Specific essays are devoted to the elaboration of the banking charter of 1894 the discussion on the problem of its autonomy or independence from the Ministry of Finance the poster campaign of the war loan of 1916 the development of the branch network of the main bank of the empire and the construction of its buildings the officials and employees of the State Bank. This is the first attempt in modern Russian historiography to consider this topic comprehensively and institutionally. The broad scope of the topic and its temporal boundaries (from the emergence to the liquidation of the State Bank) coverage of various aspects of the activities of the main bank of the empire. SKUalb8beb542ab7de6f0f.‎

‎Forordning angaaende den udi kiøbenhavn oprettede assignations-vexel og Laane=Banqve. Frederichberg den 8de Martii 1937. - [FIRST DANISH BANK]‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Høpffner, 1737 4to. Uncut without wrappers, as issued. Three lines of text to last leaf, otherwise fine. 4 ff.‎

‎Rare first publication of the first regulation of “The Kurantbank”, the first independent Danish bank. It was established on 29 October 1736 as a joint-stock company with royal charter, and its official name was The Copenhagen Transfer, Exchange, and Loans Bank. It opened for business on 11 March 1737 and was established to 1) strengthen Danish commerce and manufacturing 2) contribute to the maintaining of the monetary system and, 3) be completely independent from the state. “Since the beginning of the 17th century a number of banks had been set up in several countries of Northern Europe, partly deposit and transfer banks (Amsterdam 1609, Hamburg 1619), partly note-issuing credit banks (London 1694, Edinburgh 1695, and — to some extent — Stockholm 1656). With the exception of the short-lived bank of John Law all of them were founded in republics or non-absolute kingdoms. For more than a century the idea of setting up a bank had, now and then, occupied the minds of Danish governments, but without results. In the 1730'ties the prices of agricultural products, Denmark's chief exports, were extremely low. About 1735 new advisers, especially J. S. Schulin and count Fr. Danneskiold-Samsoe, persuaded the king, Christian VI, to counteract the threatening lack of foreign exchange by encouraging direct trade and home manufactures.In order to attain this a new department of trade and manufactures was formed, with the said ministers as presidents. A severe obstacle to the plans of the department was the lack of capital in the country. In order to provide the trade and manufactures of Copenhagen with cheap loans the department planned to establish a bank, and the king soon took an ardent interest in the project. First mentioned in February plans were realised in the autumn of 1736.” (Rasmussen, Kurantbankens oprettelse). ‎

‎PAVEL I. Decree of May 1799 on the issuance of loans from the Auxiliary Bank to ‎

‎PAVEL I. Decree of May 1799 on the issuance of loans from the Auxiliary Bank to nobles. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/PAVEL I. Ukaz o vydache iz Vspomogatel'nogo banka kreditov (zaymov) dlya dvoryan. May 1799 goda. Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).St. Petersburg 1799 10 sheets with turnovers. Enlarged format. Annexes: 1. Writings to borrowers from the Auxiliary Bank who have already prepared tickets and are not issued just because they or their proxies are not for rosters in the loan book. 2. Writings to borrowers from the Auxiliary Bank who although they have presented certificates of their collateral but are not yet satisfied with their loans or for their related certificates expected by the bank from the court seats or for some recent entry of the nicknames. 5 sheets with turnovers. 3. Writings to borrowers from the Auxiliary Bank who have only notified the bank of their intention to borrow but have not yet provided certificates of their collateral. 2 sheets with turnovers. TOTAL 10 sheets with turnovers We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb93a5f3eebafe110d‎