[Rarebooks] FS: Very scarce (but incomplete) work by Noah Webster. NY: 1802

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Webster, Noah. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, ON POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. I. 
An Address to the President of the United States... II. An Essay on the 
Rights of Neutral Nations... III. A Letter, on the Value and Importance of the 
American Commerce to Great-Britain. IV. A Sketch of the History and Present State 
of Banks and Insurance Companies in the United States. New-York: Printed by E. 
Belden & Co. 1802. 8vo. viii,228,38pp. (of 48pp., lacking the final 5 
leaves). Modern tan buckram with black spine label. Text browned and discolored but 
still readable.     $450.00 (trade discount allowed)
A rather poor and defective copy of a very scarce book (one copy on-line for 
$7,500).   It contains the first printed history of banking in America (the 
final essay which, unfortunately, is incomplete). Howes W203.

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