1677 1ed Touch-Stone for GOLD Silver Commerce Finance Money Badcock Economics

1677 1^ed Touch-Stone for GOLD Silver Commerce Finance Money Badcock Economics

A rare and highly desirable 1677 first edition of William Badcock’s “A Touch-Stone for Gold and Silver Wares”. This work was one of the most important financial guides from the 17^th-century – a work of buying direction for money changers, gold and silver handlers, for values of goods, and much more.

This fine edition contains a printing of John Reynolds exchange rate tables, published in 1679.

Item number: #21818

Price: $750

BADCOCK, William [or ‘W.B.’]

A touch-stone for gold and silver wares, or, A manual for goldsmiths and all other persons, whether buyers, sellers, or wearers of any manner of goldsmiths work

London: For John Bellinger & Thomas Bassett, 1677. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [16], 218
  • “Tables” – [152]
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~6.5in X 4.5in (16.5cm x 11cm)
• Rare and desirable

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