[AMERICANA] ECONOMICA: A STATISTICAL MANUAL FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

City of Washington: Printed for the Author, 1806. First Edition. Small 8vo; bound in mottled calf which has been rebacked in japanese tissue; with the original morocco title label laid down; front end paper has been tipped back in (the end paper identifies Thompson as being in Salem, Washington County, Indiana and mostly he practices his signature on it,) with perhaps a later first blank leaf; the title page has been trimmed, not affecting the text; signature of J. S. Thompson from 1841 is on the title, The bookplate of “McClure Workingmen’s Insitute” printed by the “True Republican” Rockville Ind. in 1857, and enumerating that Insitutes “Rules and Regulations” regarding books from its library, is found on the front pastedown.~~~Containing much “valuable information respecting the population and wealth of American (Sabin, 5956). We know that Jefferson had a copy, as two year later Blodget sent him an appendix of 4 leaves “chiefly respecting the Cotton manufactory” [www.founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-79]. Blodget referred to corporations as “minor republics”, and argued that commercial ties -- “incorporated monied commonwealth associations” -- transformed otherwise quarrelsome citizens into co-investors with shared interests [Economica, 20]. An important treatise on the economic theories of the young Republic. (Sabin, 5956; Howes, B 537).