by Joseph de la Vega, translated by Professor Hermann Kellenbenz
Book Description: Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Boston, MA, 1957. Soft cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover, Saddle Stitch, brown wrappers with pasted title (white label with black text in black frame) to cover (see photo), Portions Descriptive of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange Selected and Translated by Professor Hermann Kellenbenz Hochschule fur Wirtschaftsund Sozialwissenschaften, ENGLISH VERSION, original Spanish version 1688, this translation 1957.
Book Condition: Very Good, wrappers show considerable wear, edges have small tears (nothing larger than 1/2"), wrappers tearing away from spine staples but still intact, covers faded and light soil, wrapper edges chipped in some places, spine faded, some light foxing to the first few pages, pages lightly tanned otherwise very clean internally and unmarked.
Contents: This book contains selected portions of the original 1688 version that were directly related to the Seventeenth Century Stock Exchange in Amsterdam. These accounts by de la Vega are widely regarded as the first written observations and descriptions of how the Stock Exchange operates. Trade and speculation in shares first appeared in Amsterdam when, in 1602, the six local "chambers" for East Indian trade were united into a general Dutch East India Company. This is a fascinating read on it's own, but I found the lengthy Introduction invaluable. This "Introduction" is not found in other versions of this book.Contains a two page Forward by Aurthor H. Cole, Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, Harvard University, and a fourteen page Introduction by the principle translator Hermann Kellenbenz. Professional traders will find the similarities of the Seventeenth Century Exchange far outweigh the differences of today's modern exchanges. The Introduction also includes some important historical content that provides a good backdrop for the de la Vega dialogues. 56 pages. A MUST READ for any serious trader. Extremely Scarce 1957 translation of this 1688 title, Highly Collectible.
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