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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Support Small Business by buying this book! 1st printing of Yale Universtiy Press. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24-48 hours. Pages are clean with no apparent marks. Binding is tight and square. Light shelf wear to cover. With broadsheet descriptions by John Roger Paas. Translations by George C. Schofield. . . . . . . . . . . Offers an economic analysis of the Kipper und Wipper inflation of 1619-23, the most serious German inflation before the hyperinflation following World War I, with a focus on how it affected people's lives and behaviour. . . . . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: * The German Inflation of 1619-23 -- Note on Broadsheets -- Note on the Translations -- PLATE 1.) Sad Lamentation about My Moneybag -- PLATE 2.) The Purseâs Wretched Howling, Ceaseless Lament, and Accusations against Its Master -- PLATE 3.) Coin Arrangement of the Clippers and Whippers -- PLATE 4.) Epitaph or Grave Inscription of Good Money -- PLATE 5.) The Profiteering Master Coiner -- PLATE 6.) A New Guessing Game -- PLATE 7.) New Coin-Ladder -- PLATE 8.) A New Colloquy on Moneyâs Present Unbelievable Inflation and the Wretched State of Coinage -- PLATE 9.) How the Rich Man Devours the Poor -- PLATE 10.) Prickly Sea Holly, Or the Way of the World at the Present Time -- PLATE 11.) Here Dame Poverty Is Indicated, together with Many Artisans, according to Their Activity and Existence Today -- PLATE 12.) Two Kinds of Supplication to You Gentlemen -- PLATE 13.) Mirror of greed and usary, in which those are put on dispalywho are infected with the revolting vice of insatiable greed and Usury, placed before your eyes as an ernest warning -- PLATE 14.) Tantali fames, that is: Description of the insatiable and utterly harmful nature of quality of the violent illness of avarice in which both from Holy Scripture and profane and worldly authors it is briefly demonstrated that an ill-gotten penny, as the widespread proverb says, will devour ten others. Melius est modicum justo, super diuitias peccatorum multas, Psalm 36 -- PLATE 15.) The Leper Money -- PLATE 16.) The Mentor of the Most Pernicious Whippers and Clippers as Despoilers of Money, Land, and Populace -- PLATE 17.) A Dreadful News Account of What Happened in This Year 1621 to a Moneychanger; This Newspaper Gives a Complete Report of How He Was Suddenly Punished by God -- PLATE 18.) When the Needy and the Greedy Meet, the Devil Is the Middleman -- PLATE 19.) Melancholy Lament of the Poor concerning the Exceedingly Great Inflation and the Afflicted Time -- PLATE 20.) The Jewish Clipper and Profiteer -- PLATE 21.) Sincere Christian Admonition to the Godless and Conscienceless Usurers, That They Nonetheless May Pay Better Heed to the Eternal Salvation of Their Souls, etc. -- PLATE 22.) Genuine Interpretation of Mankindâs Love of Money, together with Its Usefulness and Harm -- PLATE 23.) The Laughing and Weeping Money-Mission -- PLATE 24.) Chart of the Large Kinds of Coins, How from the Year 1582 until 1623 They Have Risen and Fallen -- PLATE 25.) Copy of communications, which by the supreme prince of Hell, Lucifer, has been dispatched as a reminder to each and every Clipper and Whipper, Userer and Skinner, that they who will desire, constantly and willingly, to remain at their task, already begun, of Clipping and Whipping, defrauding and cheating, rascality and thievery as it may further be named and finally what their compensation shall be for their labor and faithful service, forever and in eternity ------ PLATE 26.) Brief and simple, nonetheless clear and sufficient instruction and description, of what actually are the original and arrival of that honorable society, which is called Clipping and Whipping, by what means it has increased and grown, what fair fruits it has borne and finally what sort of end and reward it one day has to expect. Composed for all those who have taken part in the Guild, or are somewhat inclined and helpful to it, as a.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Rickey, George W. (illustrator); 15 Color Illustrations / plates; Decorative title Page (green/brown/black); Headpieces & Colophon (brown/white) (illustratore). First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall (tall). In black cloth with gilt and red titling, 8vo. [6], 209, [1] pages. Contains 13 short stories in all, in generally uncredited English translations (only 2 are credited to Garnett). Notable for the illustrations and decorations. One of an unspecified number of copies, set up and printed by The Haddon Craftsmen, Scranton, PA; typography, decorations, lettering and binding design by Charles E. Skaggs.

HARDCOVER. Condizione: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. Octavo hardcover; 171 pp. in English + 194 pp. in German.; frontispiece; map of Schöpf's route included in rear pocket. Tight binding, clean throughout. Mild marking to bottom edges of textblock. Very Good. Contributions to the History of Geology, Vol. 8. English text, with a facsimile reprint of the original 1787 German text.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 454 pages. 9.00x7.00x1.06 inches. In Stock.