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TitleManuscript by Isaac de Pinto

Held atSenate House Library, University of London

Reference codeMS129

Datec1771

Creator
- Pinto, Isaac de (1717-1787) writer on financeMore Info on CreatorLess Info on Creator
  Issac de Pinto was born in Amsterdam and was a Dutch Jew of Portuguese origin. He became a merchant and a banker, and was one of the main investors in the Dutch East India Company. Pinto was also a scholar, and a philosophe whose interests included Jewish emancipation and National Debt. In the 1740s, Jewish merchants in the Netherlands were forbidden from selling clothes, gherkins or fish on the street. Pinto asked for these restrictions to be lifted. In return he gave money and loans to William IV of Orange for military purposes against the French. Despite his learning, Pinto didn't begin his career as a writer until the age of forty-five. Karl Marx later referred derisively to Pinto, whom he regarded as glorifying the Dutch financial system.

Scope and ContentManuscript of a book on the financial system and creditworthiness, with particular respect to England.

NotesThis is probably the author's own corrected manuscript of Traite de la circulation et du credit, contenant une Analyse raisonnee des Fonds d'Angleterre (Marc Michel Rey, Amsterdam, 1771).

Conditions governing accessOpen for research but 24 hours notice necessary.

Extent1 volume

Physical descriptionQuarto. Binding: 18th century marbled paper-covered boards and spine. Paper marbled in a red, yellow, and black shell marble pattern. Bound to 24.7 x 20 cm. Label of Dutch bookbinder Willem Carbentus attached to front pastedown.

Level of descriptionfonds

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