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Description (dc): OU Libraries’ Bass Business History digital collection includes a 1468 book on contract law; The Factory Operatives’ Magazine (1841-1842, Lowell, Massachusetts), an early U.S. income tax form (1865), and a large portfolio of plates on calico painting and printing in the East Indies in the 17th and 18th Centuries (1921). All images in the digital collection have been released to the public domain. When using images from this collection, please include the following attribution statement: Image(s) courtesy of the Harry W. Bass Business History Collection, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.
Collection Title: Bass Business History Collection

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: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations; Book I. Of the causes of improvement in the productive powers of labour, and of the order according to which its produce is naturally distributed among the different ranks of the people -- Book II. Of the nature, accumulation, and employment of stock -- Book III. Of the different progress of opulence in different nations -- Book IV. Of systems of political economy -- Book V. Of the revenue of the sovereign or commonwealth., by Adam Smith, LL.D. and F.R.S., formerly Professor of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow ; in two volumes., First edition. Consult McCulloch and Scott., Also issued with variant title page, with the addition of W. Creech at Edinburgh to the imprint. Consult English short title catalogue, N505134, Signatures: A⁴ a² B-3T⁴; [A]² B-4E⁴ F²., Bookseller's advertisements for T. Cadell, [1] page at end of volume 2., Volume 2 has separate title page.

: A new universal history of arts and sciences, shewing their origin, progress, theory, use and practice, and exhibiting the invention, structure, improvement, and uses of the most considerable instruments, engines and machines, with their nature, power, an

: Samuel Hale's day book, Portsmouth, March 18th, 1755-[1766].

: De [con]tractibus marcatorum; Reuere[n]di p[at]ris fratris Joh[ann]is Nider sacre theologie p[ro]fessoris ordinis predicator[um]., Title from incipit on p. [1]., Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red., Summary of Giovanni di Montenero's Defensorium mendicantium: p. [54]-[59].

: Calico painting and printing in the the East Indies in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.; "Les toiles peintes de L'Inde", p. 60-72, signed: Henri Clouzot, conservateur du [!] Bibliotheque Forney, Paris., Portfolio of plates has only cover-title., Bibliographical foot-notes.

: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations; Book I. Of the causes of improvement in the productive powers of labour, and of the order according to which its produce is naturally distributed among the different ranks of the people -- Book II. Of the nature, accumulation, and employment of stock -- Book III. Of the different progress of opulence in different nations -- Book IV. Of systems of political economy -- Book V. Of the revenue of the sovereign or commonwealth., by Adam Smith, LL.D. and F.R.S., formerly Professor of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow ; in two volumes., First edition. Consult McCulloch and Scott., Also issued with variant title page, with the addition of W. Creech at Edinburgh to the imprint. Consult English short title catalogue, N505134, Signatures: A⁴ a² B-3T⁴; [A]² B-4E⁴ F²., Bookseller's advertisements for T. Cadell, [1] page at end of volume 2., Volume 2 has separate title page.

: Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales des Provinces unies vers les empereurs du Japon contenant plusieurs choses remarquables arrivées pendant le voyage des ambassadeurs, et deplus, la description des villes, bourgs, châteaux, fortere; Title in red and black, vignette, head pieces, initials; side-notes., Added t.-p., engraved.

: Calico painting and printing in the the East Indies in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.; "Les toiles peintes de L'Inde", p. 60-72, signed: Henri Clouzot, conservateur du [!] Bibliotheque Forney, Paris., Portfolio of plates has only cover-title., Bibliographical foot-notes.

: The Factory operatives' magazine.; No. 1 (Apr. 1841)., Cover from caption.

: Diarium; oder, Tage-Buch uber dasjenige, so sich Zeit einer neun-jahrigen Reise, zu Wasser und Lande, meistentheils in Dienst derverinigten geoctroyrten Niederlandischen Ostindianischen Compagnie, besonders in denselbigen Landern taglich begeben und zuget; Bound with: Eisslingen, Christopg. Breviarium itineris Italiae. Nurnberg, 1966.

: The history of that great and renowned monarchy of China. Wherein all the particular provinces are accurately described: as also the dispositions, manners, learning, lawes, militia, government, and religion of the people. Together with the traffick and co; Lately written in Italian by F. Alvarez Semedo ... Now put into English by a person of quality, and illustrated with several mapps and figures ... To which is added the history of the late invasion, and conquest of that flourishing kingdom by the Tartars. With an exact account of the other affairs of China, till these present times., The history of the invasion by the Tartars, p. [251]-304, has special t.-p.: Bellum tartaricum, or, The conquest of the great and most renovvned empire of China, by the invasion of the Tartars ... Written originally in Latine by Martin Martinius ... London, Printed for J. Crook, 1655.

: Java, Sumatra and the other islands of the Dutch East Indies; by A. Cabaton, tr. and with a preface by Bernard Miall; with a map and 47 illustrations.

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