‎PUTTE, Jean Van De ( Gent 1849 - Sint-Gilles 1931 ) :‎
‎"Collection of 6 titles by Jean van de Putte ; bound in 1 volume. 3 titles deal with international monetary problems. Others with the Aztecs, tsunamis...(Description below)."‎

‎.: [1]The Cannibalism of the Aztecs, Did domesticated dogs exists in New-Spain before the arrival of Conquerors ? Privately printed in Ghent, 28 pp, (1912). [2] Une Monaie Mondiale (aux membres de la Conférence Financière Internationale. Impr. van Doosselaere Gand, 1920, 15 pp. [3] Etude sur l'origine des Tremblements de Terre, Raz de Marée et Eruptions Volcanique. Bruxelles, Larcier, 1924, 143 pp, avec 24 cartes et figures. [4] L'Amélioration des habitations dans les pays exposés aux séismes. Genève, Société de Géographie (tiré à part), 1924. [5] La crise monétaire et ses rémèdes. Bruxelles, Larcier, 1925, 76 pp. [6] La Réforme Monétaire. Bruxelles, Larcier, 1926, 19 pp. Bound in full brown morocco, fillets on both covers. On the front cover gilt title ''Souvenir''. Marbled endpapers and decorated spine. (Binding with traces of use, Front hinge weak and nearly broken. Inside clean copy. With an ex-dono of the author to 'Carmen'. Rare collections of publications by Jean van de Putte who served as Belgian Consul in Guatemala before the First World War. . He obviously had a wide range of interests but monetary and financial politics form the centre of it.‎

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