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Singerman ID#supp1666

Cyclopædia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes; containing Interesting Reminiscences and Facts, Remarkable Traits and Humors, and Notable Sayings, Dealings, Experiences, and Witticisms of Merchants, Traders, Bankers, Mercantile Celebrities, Millionaires, Bargain Makers, etc., etc. in All Ages and Countries ... By Frazar Kirkland. Embellished with Portraits and Illustrative Cuts.

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Singerman ID#supp1666

[Devens, Richard Miller]. Cyclopædia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes; containing Interesting Reminiscences and Facts, Remarkable Traits and Humors, and Notable Sayings, Dealings, Experiences, and Witticisms of Merchants, Traders, Bankers, Mercantile Celebrities, Millionaires, Bargain Makers, etc., etc. in All Ages and Countries ... By Frazar Kirkland. Embellished with Portraits and Illustrative Cuts. New York: D. Appleton, 1864. 2 vols.

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Contains numerous items of Jewish interest, as in "Terrible Revenge on a Bank by Rothschild" (pp. 95-96), "Buying Cheap" (pp. 211-12), "Jew Losing a Bargain" (p. 243), "Jewish Opinion of Rothschild" (pp. 243-44). A perfect copy has a frontispiece.