All books in this collection are cataloged, and should be requested individually in CLIO. This record is for informational purposes only.
Over 2000 printed volumes of works on accountancy, mostly how-to guides, from the first printed work on accounting (a portion of the Summa arithmetica of Luca Pacioli, 1494) to the early twentieth century, a gift in 1924 from Robert H. Montgomery, Professor of Accounting at the School of Business in order to document the history of accounting practices. The collection was formally transferred to Rare Books from the Business Library in 1974, although it had been on deposit here prior to 1960.
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All books in this collection are cataloged, and should be requested individually in CLIO. This record is for informational purposes only.
Montgomery collected both these printed works and a large collection of manuscripts, described as two separate related collections - bound manuscripts dating from ca. 1300 through 1941 (cataloged individually with call number prefix "MS Montgom" and described in a cumulative record https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4079126 and Montgomery Business Papers dating from ca. 1600 through 1945) at https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4079124
See The Montgomery Library of Accountancy, A Check List (1927), The Montgomery Library of Accountancy, Second Check List (1930) and Exhibition of Selected Books and Manuscripts from the Montgomery Library of Accountancy (1937).
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