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Singerman ID#supp1422

A Practical Treatise on Business; or, How to Get, Save, Spend, Give, Lend, and Bequeath Money: With an Inquiry into the Chances of Success and Causes of Failure in Business. Also, Prize Essays, Statistics, Miscellanies, and Numerous Private Letters from Successful and Distinguished Business Men. Twenty-Second Thousand. Chicago: D. B. Cooke & Co., 1853 [c1852].

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Singerman ID#supp1422

Freedley, Edwin Troxell. A Practical Treatise on Business; or, How to Get, Save, Spend, Give, Lend, and Bequeath Money: With an Inquiry into the Chances of Success and Causes of Failure in Business. Also, Prize Essays, Statistics, Miscellanies, and Numerous Private Letters from Successful and Distinguished Business Men. Twenty-Second Thousand. Chicago: D. B. Cooke & Co., 1853 [c1852]. 372 p. (a wholesale business directory section forms pp. 337-72).

Notes

See p. 150 for Jewish business success ("they surpass all nations in courtesy, affability, and forbearance"); also financial counsel from the Rothschilds (pp. 189-90, 285-90) and David Ricardo (pp. 190-91). For European Jewish moneylenders and pawnbrokers, see p. [95].