‎Quintart Aimable Levasseur Michel‎
‎Finance‎

‎De Danske Vestindiske Öers Tilstand i Henseende til Population, Cultur og Finance-Forfatning, i anledning af nogle breve fra St. Croix, indrykkede i det Politiske og Physiske Magazin for Marts og April Maaneder 1797, hvortil er föiet Beskrivelse om Su...‎

‎Kiöbenhavn, Schultz, 1797. 8vo. Uncut, partly unopened, in contemporary (original?) marbled boards. Part of spine missing and wrappers very loose. Internally with very light occassional brownspotting. 84 pp. + four folded plates, each with the accompanying ""Plan""-leaf (complete).‎

‎First edition of Oxholm's early and important work on the state of the West Indies in which he describes the government loans to planters to buy slaves in the ten years from 1792 until abolition of the trade in 1802 and the effects of British imports on the price and quality of slaves. ""Denmark acquired St. Croix from France in 1733. Oxholm was a young Danish officer sent to the Danish West Indies in 1778 to map all the fortifications in the islands, suggest improvements, and estimate their cost. He was also to create topographic maps of the islands of St. Thomas and St. John. He mapped only St. John, but presented numerous drawings and maps at the Danish court where his work was approved and rewarded. Having married into a St. Croix family, he returned there and became a sugar planter. In 1794 he privately published a detailed map of St. Croix that he had created."" (John Russell Bartlett Collection)""Lieutenant Oxholm was a promising young man of 24 when he was sent to the Danish possessions in The West Indies. Oxholm’s task was to examine the ability of the colony to defend itself against attack and draw new maps of St. Thomas and St. John. But Oxholm was an enterprising man and he also examined a number of issues that he had not been tasked to deal with at all. The political situation of the colony, conditions for soldiers and enslaved laborers, health care and conditions for prisoners and lepers, organization of the sugar trade and the schools were all described. Oxholm became an advocate of slavery that he believed was necessary for the economy of the colony. But he was critical of the miserable living conditions of enslaved laborers, soldiers, and the sick.Oxholm’s maps were of high quality and impressively accurate. Some have been in use almost up until the present day. Today, his maps and drawings are considered by the Danish Ministry of Culture to be of “unique national importance”. Oxholm also left behind a number of reports and books about conditions in the Danish colony in the West Indies. The most important one is his book on the state of the West Indies, De danske vestindiske Øers Tilstand i Henseende til Population, Cultur og Finance-Forfatning (""The State of the Danish West Indian Islands with Respect to Population, Culture and Financial Condition"") from 1797, containing both descriptions and illustrations of plantation operations in the colony. Oxholm also wrote several debate pieces where, among other things, he defended the slave trade as late as 1806. Oxholm’s energy did not diminish, and right up until his death he continued making maps and drawings and suggesting improvements to conditions in the Danish colony in the West Indies."" (Danish State Archive, The Danish West-Indies - Sources of history).‎

‎Considerations on the Trade and Finances of this Kingdom and on the Measures of Administration with Respect to those great National Objects since the Conclusion of the Peace. - [""IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE"" WORK ON BRITISH TRADE AND FINANCE]‎

‎London, J. Wilkie, 1766. 4to. In the original printed wrappers. Lacking backstrip and with a small stain to back wrapper, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. 119 pp.‎

‎First edition of Thomas Whately's ""important and extremely rare"" (Higgs) work on British trade and finance primarily in the New World. This is the first thorough and first full description and defense of the the first direct tax ever levied by Parliament upon the colonies. The implementation of this tax resulted in the Boston Massacre and the formation of the Boston Tea Party and, eventually, in the expulsion of the British in 1776. By publishing the present defense, Thomas Whately earned himself a prominent place in the events that led to the American Revolution.""Thomas Whately, the most influential British official in colonial policy in his time, published a work on British trade and finances in 1766 [the present work] with this as his opening sentence: ""That the wealth and power of Great-Britain depend upon its trade is a proposition, which it would be equally absurd in these times to dispute or prove"". In the same year, Edmund Burke asserted that ""liberty and commerce"" were ""the true basis of its [Britain's] power."" (Draper, A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution].This policy eventually became fatal: In 1765 the Stamp Act was the first direct tax ever levied by Parliament upon the colonies. All newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets and official documents had to have the stamps. All 13 colonies protested heavily, as popular leaders like Henry in Virginia and Otis in Massachusetts rallied the people in opposition. Thomas Whately (1726-1772), an English politician and writer, was a Member of Parliament, who served as Commissioner on the Board of Trade, as Secretary to the Treasury under Lord Grenville, and as Under- secretary of State under Lord North. ""Important and extremely rare. Reprinted in ""Scarce Tracts"", 1787, and there attributed to T. Whately."" (Higgs)Higgs 3757Goldsmith 10157Sabin 103122 Hollander 1987Kress 2489 (erroneously ascribed to William Knox)‎

‎Overview of the activities of the Ministry of Finance during the reign of Emper‎

‎Overview of the activities of the Ministry of Finance during the reign of Emperor Alexander III Russia. Ministry of Finance. Overview of the activities of the Ministry of Finance during the reign of Emperor Alexander III: (1881-1894) -St. Petersburg: type. V. Kirschbaum 1902.-673 p./Obzor deyatel'nosti ministerstva finansov v tsarstvovanie imperatora Aleksandra III Rossiya. Ministerstvo finansov. Obzor deyatel'nosti Ministerstva finansov v tsarstvovanie imperatora Aleksandra III: (1881-1894).-Sankt-Peterburg: tip. V. Kirshbauma 1902.-673 s. Overview of the activities of the Ministry of Finance during the reign of Emperor Alexander III Russia. Ministry of Finance. Overview of the activities of the Ministry of Finance during the reign of Emperor Alexander III: (1881-1894) -St. Petersburg: type. V. Kirschbaum 1902.-673 p. 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. SKUbd-91aced564f938085.‎

‎Overview of the activities of the Ministry of Finance during the reign of Empero‎

‎Overview of the activities of the Ministry of Finance during the reign of Emperor Alexander III Russia. Ministry of Finance. Overview of the activities of the Ministry of Finance during the reign of Emperor Alexander III: (1881-1894) -St. Petersburg: type. V. Kirschbaum, 1902.-673 p./Obzor deyatelnosti ministerstva finansov v tsarstvovanie imperatora Aleksandra III Rossiya. Ministerstvo finansov. Obzor deyatelnosti Ministerstva finansov v tsarstvovanie imperatora Aleksandra III: (1881-1894).-Sankt-Peterburg: tip. V. Kirshbauma, 1902.-673 s. Overview of the activities of the Ministry of Finance during the reign of Emperor Alexander III Russia. Ministry of Finance. Overview of the activities of the Ministry of Finance during the reign of Emperor Alexander III: (1881-1894) -St. Petersburg: type. V. Kirschbaum, 1902.-673 p. SKUbd-1f00d4f35bfde7c7.‎

‎Index of Government Orders for the Ministry of Finance. Bulletin of Finance Ind‎

‎Index of Government Orders for the Ministry of Finance. Bulletin of Finance Industry and Trade. 1868. Annual kit. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Ukazatel pravitelstvennykh rasporyazheniy po Ministerstvu Finansov. Vestnik finansov promyshlennosti i torgovli. 1868 god. Godovoy komplekt.Regulations of the Ministry of Finance. Orders of other ministries. Information on finance industry and trade. Exchange news. Announcements. Also in the rooms were printed the statutes of the pre-preemption the rules for the commissioners of the fields etc.: Rules for the return to the rental maintenance of the Iletsk salt industry. Case of abuse at the Krupetsk distillery. 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. SKUalb8b479991c3d55a41‎