1757 Very Rare ESSAY UPON MONEY & COINS Joseph Harris ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY

A rare "working copy" from the ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY for their own fellows purposes, as an aid to their important work (adding to the books rich history). Typically bound in their own covers, with a beautiful leather spine and gilt stamp. This copy rarely comes up for sale.

Please message me to discuss condition, or for further images. Seminal work on economics, finance and monetary theory. Joseph Harris (1704-64) was equally distinguished as an astronomer and as an expert on coinage. From a humble background, he came to the attention of Edmond Halley, the Astronomer Royal.

He spent some time making astronomical observations in South America and the West Indies, and familiarised himself with marine navigational practice, proposing improvements to measuring equipment and publishing a very popular instructional work on the uses of globes and orreries. He later observed the 1761 transit of Venus from Wales.

Harris entered the Royal Mint in 1736, and became the King's Assay Master in 1749. This influential 1757 work, considered by the Victorian economist J.

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