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La vie de Albert Ballin : d'après ses notes et sa correspondance (Payot, 1923), by Bernhard Huldermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Salomon Heine : Blätter der Würdigung und Erinnerung für seine Freunde und Verehrer (B.S. Berendsohn, 1845), by Joseph Mendelssohn and Salomon Heine (page images at HathiTrust)
Leopold Bleibtreu (1777-1839) (G.D. Baedecker, 1920), by Max Ludwig Adolf Muss, Rheinische Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Forschung, and Rheinischen Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Forschung (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Albert Ballin, by Bernhard Huldermann, trans. by Wilhelm Johann Eggers (Gutenberg ebook)

Filed under: Capitalists and financiers -- Japan -- Biography

Seien Sensei rokujūnenshi : ichimei kinsei jitsugyō hattatsushi (Ryūmonsha :, 1900), by Japan) Ryūmonsha (Tokyo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sekai fugōden (Shōrinsha, 1911), by Daisui Kitamura (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Zaikai meishi shippaidan (Maiyū Shinbunsha Shuppanbu, 1909), by Chisen Asahina (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Capitalists and financiers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography

The Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of the City of New York (12th edition, 1855), by Moses Yale Beach (searchable page images at Google)
Wealth and biography of the wealthy citizens of New York city, comprising an alphabetical arrangement of persons estimated to the worth $100,000, and upwards (The Sun office, 1845), by Moses Yale Beach (page images at HathiTrust)
Wealth and pedigree of the wealthy citizens of New York City : comprising an alphabetical arrangement of persons estimated to be worth $100,000 and upwards, with the sums appended to each name : being useful to banks, merchants and others. (Compiled with much care and published at the Sun Office, 1842), by Moses Yale Beach (page images at HathiTrust)
Wealth and biography of the wealthy citizens of New York City : comprising an alphabetical arrangement of persons estimated to be worth $100,000, and upwards : with the sums appended to each name : being useful to banks, merchants, and others ... (The Sun Office, 1845), by Moses Yale Beach (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Capitalists and financiers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography

Life of Robert Morris, the great financier : with an engraving and description of the celebrated house, partly erected in Chestnut Street, between Seventh and Eighth, South Side. (Desilver, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Capitalists and financiers -- South Africa -- Biography

Cecil Rhodes; a biography and appreciation (Chapman & Hall, ltd., 1897), by James Rochfort Maquire and Leander Starr Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography

The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth: or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould (Philadelphia: J. C. Yorston and Co., 1893), by Trumbull White (multiple formats at archive.org)
Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835-1900 (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1904), by Henry Villard
- Volume I (1835-1862): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (1863-1900): multiple formats at archive.org
Life, Adventures, Strange Career and Assassination of Col. James Fisk, Jr.:The Fisk-Stokes Tragedy: All About Miss Mansfield (Philadelphia: Barclay and Co., c1872), by George L. Barclay (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of Henry Villard, journalist and financier, 1835-1900 ... (Houghton, Mifflin, 1904), by Henry Villard (page images at HathiTrust)
Henry Clay Frick, the man (s.n.], 1936), by George Brinton McClellan Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
Cannibals of finance : fifteen years' contest with the money trust (Farnum Pub. Co., 1912), by Arthur Edward Stilwell (page images at HathiTrust)
Charles Adelbert Canfield (Privately Printed, 1930), by Caspar Whitney (page images at HathiTrust)
The Rich men of the world, and how they gained their wealth; exhibiting a variety of examples of practical business success, under various circumstances, successful speculations, etc., etc. With many valuable examples for every young man. (American News Co., general agents, 1867), by N.Y.) Jesse Haney & Co. (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
Baruch, the public years (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960), by Bernard M. Baruch (page images at HathiTrust)
The life of George Peabody containing a record of those princely acts of benevolence which entitle him to the esteem and gratitude of all friends of education and the destitute, both in America, the land of his birth, and in England, the place of his death (B.B. Russell;, 1870), by Phebe A. Hanaford (page images at HathiTrust)
Wizard of Wall Street and his wealth (J.C. Yorston, 1893), by Trumbull White (page images at HathiTrust)
The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth; or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould, by Trumbull White (Gutenberg ebook)

Filed under: Capitalists and financiers -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography

Thomas Law : a biographical sketch (Press of W.F. Roberts, 1900), by Allen C. Clark and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

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