![Item #484 [BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT]. Discurso sobre el fomento de la industria popular. Pedro...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/484.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284648)
Madrid: Antonio de Sancha, 1774. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. 8vo. (4 ff.), cxcviii pp. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, evidence of two pair of ties. Text very crisp & clean. True first edition of this crucial work on bringing parity to the tradesmen in Spain, with particular emphasis in reforming the..... More
![Item #483 [BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT]. Discurso sobre la educacion popular de los Artesanos y su...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/483.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284647)
Madrid: Antonio de Sancha, 1775. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. 8vo. [24], 475, [1] pp. Binding with minor rubbing (a few insignificant wormholes) but overall in excellent condition, the text very clean and crisp. Contemporary Spanish mottled sheep, smooth spine gilt, red morocco label, early paper shelf label at foot, marbled endpapers..... More
![Item #2802 [FOSSIL FUELS]. On Gas Monopoly. A Letter addressed to the Commissioners of Sewers for...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2802.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1567632811)
London: W. Houstoun, 1834. 8vo. (230 x 120). 8 pp., original self wrappers, unbound. Chipped and very fragile on account of the paper quality. No surviving copy of this remarkable pamphlet is recorded in OCLC or COPAC, not surprising given that the Gude's "Letter" was printed on what seems to..... More
![Item #4320 [ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND ECOLOGY]. The Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4320.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736806018)
London: Macmillan, 1906. Third edition, revised, with a new Preface by the editor A.W. Flux. 8vo. l (i.e. 50], [2], 467, [1] pp. With two plates of statistical charges. Original brick-red publisher's cloth, edges untrimmed (some gatherings roughly opened, particularly those of the Preface and pp. 281-288 creased and now..... More
![Item #4326 [BOOKSELLING AND PYRAMID SCHEMES]. Catalogue of the National Library Association, a...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4326.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736806018)
Chicago: National Library Association, 1891. 4to. 182, [2] pp. With woodcut-engraved illustrations throughout. Original gray printed wrappers (chipped, more prominent at the foot of spine; stains on front cover and first 18 pages - SEE IMAGES). A sound copy, suitable for exhibition and study. NOW VERY LITTLE KNOWN, THIS SCARCE..... More
![Item #3987 [AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS - PITTSBURGH 1961]. Application for Charter of the Negro...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3987_2.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733175272)
Pittsburgh: Shields, Watson & Washington, Attorneys at Law, 1961. Together 4 leaves (7 pp.), the first two legal-size (14" x 8 1/2"), the others slightly shorter; brad bound inside a 14.74 x 9" printed chemise folded to 9" x 3.75". Creases at folds; chemise moderately worn; leaves lightly dust-soiled with..... More
