Cyclopaedia of commercial and business anecdotes

Comprising interesting reminiscences and facts, remarkable traits and humors, and notable sayings, dealings, experiences, and witticisms of merchants, bankers, millionaires, bargain makers, etc., etc., in all ages and countries. Designed to exhibit, by nearly three thousand illustrative anecdotes and incidents, the piquancies and pleasantries of trade, commerce, and general business pursuits. Astor, Rothschild, Ouvrard, Bates, Barker, Lenox, Howqua, Goldschmid, Hope, Hottinguer, Gracie, Coutts, Belmont, Morrison, de Medici, Girard, Biddle, Labouchere, Appleton, Lafitte, Cooper, Gresham, Peabody, Nolte, Brooks, Ridgway, Gray, Child, Hudson, Lawrence, McDonogh, Touro, Longworth, Bayard, Stewart, Shaw, Lowell, Morris, Riggs, Gideon, Slater, Francis, Dexter, Whitney, Sturgis, Baring, Lorillard, Perkins, Leroy, Russell, Steiglitz, Bussey, Vanderbilt, Jeejeebhoy, Grinnell, Lee, Fugger, Tattersall, Hopper, Cope, etc., etc., etc.