BECK, Johann Adam.

£1,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Tractatus novus vom Wechsel-Recht in sich begreiffend, First edition of this manual of the law and practice of currency exchange in the Holy Roman Empire, including a striking frontispiece showing a busy exchange office overseen by Mercury, the patron of trade. It covers promissory note and bills of exchange, and demonstrates the strictness of imperial exchange law.

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