On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold: The Commercial and Social Consequences which May Ensue, and the Measures which it Invites. [with] 1859 ALS from Author

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1859. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Signed by author. First American edition. 1859 autograph letter signed by author laid in, explaining to a friend how an illness and other eventualities prevented social visits. Rebacked with original backstrip laid down, minimal pencil marginalia. 211, [4] pp. Translated from the French with a new preface by Richard Cobden. Michel Chevalier was a French engineer, statesman, economist and free market liberal whose 1837 work Des interets materiels en France earned him influence and a position as professor of political economy at the College de France. Together with Richard Cobden and John Bright he prepared the free trade agreement of 1860 between the United Kingdom and France, which is still called the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty.