Articles Agreement: First Edition (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Booklet, stiff light blue wraps, lettered in black. As new/as issued (deaccessioned by the historical society). 25 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Leather Binding. Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition of this early-19th century legal handbook. A fair copy in period full brown calf (heavily rubbed; text foxed throughout; some pages have folded corners, a few have tears or chips with no loss of text). PROVENANCE: Has several period ink signatures of Gordon Newells.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First announcement of the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at Bretton Woods in July 1944 - the greatest, most powerful, and successful international economic agreement ever made. 44 Allied nations led by the United States and Great Britain sought to rebuild the international economic system while World War II was still going on. The Bretton Woods system obligated each country to adopt a monetary policy that maintained the exchange rate by tying its currency to the U.S. dollar and the ability of the IMF to bridge temporary imbalances of payments. The formation of the Bretton Woods system is by many considered the main factor in the economic prosperity experienced in Western Europe and the USA during the 50s and 60s, thus shaping the world economy for decades. Even though some of the basic traits of the system (the gold standard) were abandoned in 1971 - usually referred to as the Nixon Shock - it is still the most influential economic event in the postwar years, if not the entire 20th century.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. [9], Vi-Xxix, [3], 367, [1], 401-472, [4] Pages, [1] Leaf Of Plates : Portrait (Copper Engraving) ; 23 Cm (8Vo). (Note That Pages Vii, 468, 470 Are Mis-Numbered Vi, 486, 468 Respectively). List Of Presidents At End [473], Followed By Three Pages Of Ads. The Leaves Are 20.8 X 12.5 Cm. First Published 1780 In The U.S., First London And Irish Editions 1782, This Edition Considerably Enlarged With Treaties, Etc. In 1783. Original Speckled Calf, Worn, Edges Frayed And Rounded; Spine, Newly Re-Backed To Style, Red Morocco Spine Label, Gilt. . Contents Complete, Including Frontispiece Of Washington. Tightly Bound. Bookplate, Motto Pro Rege Et Patria / Denique Caelum", Motto Of The Leslie-Melville Family, The Earls Of Leven And Earls Of Melville, With Printed Signature Of "A. Leslie Melville" . The Honorable Major General Alexander Leslie (1731 - 1794), Son Of The 5Th Earl Leven And 6Th Earl Of Melville, Was A Major General In The British Army During The American Revolutionary War. He Was The Commander Of The British Troops At The Battle Of Harlem Heights. He Replaced Cornwallis As Commander In The South In 1782. Very Little Is Known Of His Childhood. Leslie Was Brother To Lady Mary Hamilton. He Enlisted In The 3Rd Foot Guards Of The British Army In 1753. He Was Promoted To Lieutenant-Colonel Of The 64Th Regiment Of Foot In 1766. In 1775, Before The American War Of Independence Broke Out, He Led Troops To Salem, Massachusetts Looking For Contraband Weapons. His Advance Was Delayed By A Standoff At A Bridge, During Which The Colonists Removed The Weapons He Was Looking For. His Force Was Eventually Allowed To Proceed, But Found Nothing Of Consequence, And Was Received With Hostility During The Expedition. In 1776, Leslie Was Promoted To Brigadier-General. He Fought In The Battle Of Long Island, The Landing At Kip's Bay, The Battle Of White Plains And The Battle Of Harlem Heights, The Battle Of Princeton And The Siege Of Charleston During The American War Of Independence. At Princeton, His Nephew, Captain William Leslie Was Mortally Wounded. In 1780, He Was Sent To The Chesapeake Bay By Sir Henry Clinton In Order To "Make A Powerful Diversion In [Earl Cornwallis's] Favor By Striking At The Magazines Then Collecting By The Enemy . For Supplying The Army They Were Assembling To Oppose Him." He Became Major General In 1782 And Was Made Colonel Of The 63Rd (West Suffolk) Regiment Of Foot The Same Year. He Transferred In 1788 To Be Colonel Of The 9Th (East Norfolk) Regiment Of Foot To His Death. Also, With A Later Gift Inscription Dated 1960.…

4 vols. bound as 1, 8vo, pp. 52, [2]; [iii], 408-534; 76; 124. Contemporary sheep, spine divided by double gilt rules. Some scattered toning, a few leaves foxed, hole to title-page of one vol touching text with no loss of sense. Rubbed, some wear to edges, particularly spine ends, joints split but hinges firm. Ownership inscription of Robert Drummond, Glasgow to flyleaf dated 1828, his inscription to first title-page dated 1772, final leaf of first volume filled-out in contemporary manuscript. A sammelband of heterogeneous material assembled by Rev. Robert Drummond, including an almost-unrecorded issue of the articles of a Belfast annuity fund. ESTC records 4 copies of an identically-paginated book ?The Charter-Party: or, articles of agreement of the Belfast Annuity Company?, 2 of which are at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Consultation with their holdings reveals one copy with the ESTC wording on the title-page and one with the title-page as here, but with otherwise-identical contents. John Russel?s sermon was popular enough to reach a second edition the following year, but both are now scarce, with this first printing recorded in 5 institutions in ESTC, while Colquhoun?s Christian Union has 14 records. Despite the title promising three parts, and the subtitle claiming this issue was parts one and two, no further parts appear to have followed. ESTC T222770; T27523; T165568.…

First Edition. The first US printing detailing the articles of agreement of the World Bank. Original printed stapled wrappers with minor rubbing and toning, staple rust, ownership signature of R.H. Stimson to front cover, else very good. 33 pp. The official U.S. State Department publication of the founding charter that established the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, commonly known as the World Bank. This document represents the second major institution created at Bretton Woods alongside the International Monetary Fund, specifically designed to finance post-war reconstruction in Europe and promote economic development in emerging nations. While the IMF focused on monetary stability and exchange rates, the World Bank was conceived to provide long-term capital for reconstruction and development projects that private investors were unwilling or unable to finance. The Bank's initial mission centered on rebuilding war-torn Europe, but it quickly evolved to focus primarily on development lending to what would become known as the developing world. The timing notation is significant: though formulated during the July 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, the Articles weren't signed until December 27, 1945 - the same date the IMF came into effect when the ratification threshold was met. The United States deposited its instrument of acceptance on December 20, 1945, just one week before the effective date, demonstrating the critical American role in launching both institutions.…

First Edition. Original printed wrappers with some rubbing, small tear and splits, ex-libris Stuart House, Cambridge University on rear wrapper, else very good. 55pp. The British government's official publication combining both foundational Bretton Woods charters - the Articles of Agreement for both the IMF and World Bank. Published to announce the formal establishment of both institutions following the December 27, 1945 ratification threshold when sufficient member countries had accepted the agreements. This combined publication reflects the British perspective on the dual institutional framework emerging from Bretton Woods. While Britain had advocated for Keynes's more ambitious proposals during the 1944 conference, this document represents their formal acceptance of the American-dominated system that ultimately prevailed.…

First Edition. Original blue/gray printed stapled wrappers. Some pencil notations, toning and a small chip to front wrapper, else very good condition. Printed by the IMF as opposed to the more common U.S. Treasury printing. 56 pp. The first American publication of the foundational charter that established the post-war international monetary system. This document emerged from the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, from July 1-22, 1944, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after World War II. The Articles of Agreement established fixed exchange rates with countries required to guarantee convertibility of their currencies into U.S. dollars within 1% of fixed parity rates, with the dollar convertible to gold at $35 per troy ounce. The conference was driven by lessons learned from the interwar period, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and officials like Secretary of State Cordell Hull believing that free trade promoted not just prosperity, but also peace. The two principal architects were John Maynard Keynes, adviser to the British Treasury, and Harry Dexter White, chief international economist at the U.S. Treasury Department. While both envisioned fixed exchange rates conducive to international trade expansion, White's more limited plan for a Stabilization Fund ultimately prevailed over Keynes's proposal for a global central bank issuing a new international currency called the "bancor". The Articles of Agreement required ratification by countries representing at least 80 percent of the capital subscriptions to take effect. This threshold was reached on December 27, 1945 (over a year and a half after the conference concluded) when twenty-nine member countries had ratified the agreement, formally establishing the IMF and the system where countries kept their currencies fixed but adjustable to the dollar. This monetary architecture dominated global finance until President Nixon's "Nixon Shock" of August 15, 1971, which suspended dollar convertibility to gold and effectively ended the Bretton Woods system. The system had aimed to prevent competitive devaluations and encourage an open trading system, establishing the IMF to monitor exchange rates and lend reserve currencies to countries with balance of payments deficits. This official American publication thus stands as the foundational charter of the modern international monetary system, documenting the moment when multilateral cooperation replaced the economic nationalism that had characterized the interwar period.…

1st Edition. Folio (18 2/8 x 13 inches). Title-page, and two leaves of index, 116 numbered text leaves, printed on rectos only. TWO EXCEPTIONALLY FINE AND VERY IMPORTANT ENGRAVED MAPS: one full-page engraved map of Pennsylvania, Maryland and part of Virginia by Thomas Hutchinson, published by John Senex, with boundary line hand-coloured in red; one double-page engraved map: "A Map of parts of the Provinces of Pensylvania and Maryland with the Counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware according to the most exact Surveys yet made drawn in the Year 1740", attributed to Benjamin Eastburn, with boundary line hand-coloured in red (lower edge close-cropped with loss of two witness's names). Contemporary English blind-paneled reversed calf, red morocco lettering piece (some wear to extremities, small loss on back cover, a few stains). Provenance: inscribed "Dr. R[osenbach], April 1945, 575, on the verso of the front free endpaper; with the small bookplate of Thomas W. Streeter, his sale, Parke-Bernet, 20 April 1967, lot 955; anonymous consignor, Sotheby's New York, 31 October 1984, lot 48; Important Printed Books and Americana from The Albert H. Small Collection, his sale, May 18, 2012, lot129. AN EXTREMELEY IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL LEGAL BRIEF RELATED TO THE LONG-STANDING DISPUTE OVER THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA, ONLY SETTLED WHEN CHARLES MASON AND JEREMIAH DIXON COMPLETED THEIR MONUMENTAL SURVEY OF 1768 First edition, and printed only for the use of the parties immediately concerned with the dispute, and not for sale. Published in either 1742 or 1743, but certainly not before 11 August 1742, the date at the end of the Schedule, folio 33. Presumably published soon after 26 October 1742, the date when Lord Baltimore made Sir Dudley Rider his attorney general, who is named on the title-page, as a party to the proceedings. The bitter dispute, which this legal brief reports, between the influential proprietary Penn and Calvert families, began when William Penn received his grant for Pennsylvania on 4 March 1681, and raged uninterrupted, and including the occasional armed conflict, for nearly 90 years before the Mason-Dixon line was firmly established and the boundary set for posterity. Both families claimed land that included Philadelphia, with the Penns claiming the 'lower' counties that make up present-day Delaware for Pennsylvania. Since 1632 the Calvert family (the Lords Baltimore) had been the hereditary proprietors of Maryland, with near absolute powers granted to them by Charles I through the Maryland charter. However, their "proprietorship was lost following the revolution of 1688 in view of the Calverts' Roman Catholicism and alleged sympathy for James II. Charles's father spent much of his life shedding his Stuart ties in the hope of regaining the proprietorship. His renunciation of Roman Catholicism in 1713 and confirmation in the Church of England removed the final obstacle. On the death of Charles's grandfather Charles Calvert, third Baron Baltimore, on 21 February 1715, the proprietorship was returned to the family. The success of Charles's father was short-lived, however, as he died less than two months later. Aged fifteen, Charles Calvert now inherited the barony and the proprietorship. Upon coming of age Baltimore made it clear that he had no intention of being an idle proprietor. Facing him, however, was a monumental task of reasserting his authority over a colony that had grown steadily independent in the Calverts' absence. The lower house of the Maryland assembly had steadily eroded the authority of the executive, and its members would not be brought to heal without a struggle. Baltimore's first action was to reassert the physical presence of the Calverts by sending family members to the colony as governors" (Troy O. Bickham for DNB online). The land granted to Lord Baltimore in Maryland gave him the territory from latitude 40 degrees north southward to the south bank of the Potomac River and eastward.…