by Joseph de la Vega
Book Description: Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Boston, MA, 1988. Soft cover. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover, perfect bound, cream colored linen-like wrappers with B&W illustration of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange circa Seventeenth Century and blue title to cover, 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. This copy is a 1988 REPRINT of the 1957 translation.
Book Condition: Very Good, wrappers rubbed and soiled, general shelfwear, corners bumped, internally very clean 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 The Introduction also includes some important historical content that provides a good backdrop for the de la Vega dialogues. 56 pages.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. 1988 REPRINT of the 1957 translation of this 1688 title, Collectible.
Status: SOLD, 11 September, 2012 to Private Collector in New York.
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