1873 – Bulls & Bears of New York – Hale Smith | American Economics & Capitalism

Matthew Hale Smith’s Twenty Years Among the Bulls and Bears of Wall Street is a rare and important 19th-century book on the history of American economics and trade on Wall Street. According to Lucy Heckman, this book

“Studies Wall street with emphasis on the 1860s, covers diverse topics among which are: Black Friday, 1869; Wall Street language; daily operations on the New York Stock Exchange in the 1860s; the stories of Commodore Vanderbilt, Daniel Drew, James Fisk, Jacob Little, Victoria Woodhull, Tennessee Claflin, and Jay Cooke; and a description of early Wall Street. With Illustrations.”

This 1873 edition entitled simple Bulls and Bears of New York, includes a full description of the Panic of 1873.

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bulls and Bears of New York
• Author(s): Matthew Hale Smith
• Publisher: Hartford and Chicago, J.B. Burr & Co.
• Edition: 1873 edition.
• Binding: Full leather, professionally restored hinges
• Format: (8vo), single volume
• Size:  8 in x 5.5 in (20 cm x 14 cm)
• Collation: 576 pp
• Illustrations: Numerous full-page engravings
• Contents Include:
  • Black Friday and the gold panic of 1869
  • Operations of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Wall Street terminology and trading customs
  • Profiles of Vanderbilt, Drew, Fisk, and Jay Cooke
  • Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin
  • Discussion of the Panic of 1873
• Reference(s): Howes S 639

Condition:

Very Good. Full leather binding remains tight and secure with professionally restored hinges. Corners show little to no wear. Pages remain clean and complete. Numerous engraved plates retain strong impressions throughout.

Why Collect This?

• Important nineteenth-century Wall Street history
• Includes major financial figures of the Gilded Age

Item Number: # 50461