Law, Economics & Finance. Four sammelbands of parliament...

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Law, Economics & Finance. Four sammelbands of parliamentary acts, 19th c, comprising: 1) Birmingham & Staffordshire Gas Acts, five dated from 1825-75, 2) Birmingham Gas Companies Acts, two dated 1819 & 1875, 3) Birmingham Coal Companies Acts, two dated 1827 & 1836, 4) Oldbury Charity Estate Act, 1841, each bound in contemporary Birmingham Law Society cloth, lettered in gilt, their stamps and or markings in places, folio (31 x 20cm); [&] Money: Papers on Currency, 1850-1880, a sammelband of seven pamphlets: 1) Report of the Sub-Committee on Currency, to the Acting Committee of the National Association for the Protection of Industry and Capital throughout the British Empire, n.d. [1850], [2], 18pp, 2) Swiney (William), Notes on the Monetary Panics and Convulsions, and the Effects of the Currency Acts of 1819 & 1844, second edition, London: Richardson (Brothers), 1856, 42pp, 3) Smee (William Ray, Esq., FSA), On Silver & Gold, Paper and Credit, For private circulation, [Paris?], n.d. [1860] 12pp, 4) Herford (Mr. Edward), On Facts and Fictions of the Currency, Manchester Statistical Society, Read June 9th, 1875, 14pp, 5) Cernuschi (Henri), The Bland Bill: its grounds, its alleged dishonesty, its imperfections, its future, Paris: Published by the Author, 1878, 24pp, 6) idem., Identicalness of Francs, Pounds Sterling, and Dollars. Pairs, May, 1878, [2]pp, 7) idem., Monetary Diplomacy in 1878. London: P.S. King, 1878, 63pp, tipped-in erratum slip, 8) Greig (John Kinloch, Bank Manager, Leeds), Bank Note and Banking Reform: with suggestions for a new banking act, London: Effingham Wilson, 1880, 25pp, the whole prefixed by a [2]pp MS title and contents leaf, ex-Liverpool Free Public Library, their institutional cloth binding, Bound 8/5/85, book label and occasional stamps, upper-cover starting to split, 8vo, (5)