Rare appearance of financial work by author who ended up dying in poverty
It is close on 50 years since a 1705 first of John Law’s 'Money and Trade Considered…' was seen at auction, said Lyon & Turnbull (20% buyer’s premium) of the copy in re-backed contemporary calf that it sold for £22,000 in a summer sale held in Edinburgh.
This …Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money, as the full title continues, was initially pub…