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Kingin Seisaku Zumaki : [manuscript]
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Sendai Ishinomaki Chūsen : [manuscript]
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Japanese picture scroll illustrating the casting of sen (past currency, roughly the equivalent of 1/100 yen); images include: breaking up ore, roasting, tartara bellows, etc.
mssHM 82859
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Modo di affinare e partire l'oro dall'argento, et altro belle cose segrete, che non sone molto volgare
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An apparently unpublished treatise on gold refining. The unknown author describes recipes for different methods of refining and assaying, giving practical advice as to what type of vessels and what type of ovens to use. He seems to have been a master of a mint, as he appends two long lists, one of silver, the other of gold coins issued from various Italian, French, Hungarian, German and English mints, and all current in Italy in 1526. He lists the alloys and the correct weights of more than 100 different coins. Includes one marginal sketch of a test tube. In Italian.
mssHM 72879
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Commonplace book. Economics: manuscript
Manuscripts
Copies of treatises and records concerning English currency, the wool trade, foreign exchange, the Royal Mint, etc.
mssHM 38340
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A booke of exchange of merchants: manuscript
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A discussion of the principles of mercantile exchanges of weights and currencies, with examples, followed by a brief treatise on the Mint and coinage.
mssHM 730
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Besshi Dōzan Zukan : [manuscript]
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Panoramic view of Besshi copper mine and the mountain in which it was located; information card accompanying material dates the illustrations to some time in the 18th c., though image # 13 of the scroll is thought to be a later addition, sometime from the 1890s; epilogue includes a poem by Hosui -- English translation included in card.
mssHM 82857
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Detailed statistical abstracts of Treasury accounts of each branch of public revenues and expenditures, (bulk) 1687-1702
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The present matched set of nine volumes are contemporary or nearly contemporary copies of the Treasury's detailed accounts of annual or semi-annual public revenues from commodity-specific customs and excise fees, goods seized, Parliamentary loans, licensing fees, land and hearth taxes, profits from the Mint, shipping and port taxes, marriage and burial fees, and numerous other revenue streams, each amount collected being set off against specific expenditures on the civil service, army, navy, secret service, government pensions and annuities, interest on the new national debt, building and construction, and other "contingents of divers natures". The precise relation of these records to the Treasury's Annual Account series remains to be established. The volumes are as listed below.
mssHM 69953-69955