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Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, the merchant's directory. Being a complete guide to all men in business, Whether AS Traders, Remitters, Owners, Freighters, Captains, Insurers, Brokers, Factors, Supercargoes, Agents. Containing an account of our trading companies and colonies, with their Establishments, and an Abstract of their Charters; the duty of consuls, and the Laws subsisting about Aliens, Naturalization and Denization. To Which IS Added a state of the present general traffick of the whole world; describing the Manufactures and Products of each particular Nation: And Tables of the Correspondence and Agreement of the European Coins, Weights, and Measures, with the Addition of all others that are known. Extracted fro the works of the best writers both at Home and Abroad; more especially from those justly celebrated ones of Messieurs Savary; improved and corrected by the author's own observations, during his long Continuance in Trade. The whole calculated for the Use and Service of the Merchant, Lawyer, Senator, and Gentleman. The second edition, with large additions. By Wyndham Beawes, Esq; His Britannick Majesty's Consul at Seville and St. Lucar.
Beawes, Wyndham.Date: M.DCC.LXI. [1761]- Books
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The negociator's magazine: or, the most authentick account yet published of the monies, weights, and measures of the principal places of trade in the world. Also An Account of the European Exchanges in general; the Customs of Merchants relating thereto; and Rules and Examples to cast them up by; with the Nature and Use of Simple and Compound Arbitrations; and an History of the English Gold and Silver Coins, for near 500 Years past. To which are added, Curious Calculations of great Use in the West-India, Carolina, and New-England Trades; and Tables, shewing the intrinsick Value of any Foreign Gold, or Silver Coin. All of great Use to Merchants and Traders; and entirely necessary to those who would understand Merchants Accompts. The fourth edition, with many alterations, and great additions. By Richard Hayes, Teacher of Merchants Accompts; late of Princes-Street near the Bank of England, now of Queen-Street near Cheapside.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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Speeches in the House of Commons upon the equalization of the weights and measures of Great Britain; With notes, observations, &c. &c. also, a general standard proposed for the weights and measures of Europe: with brief abstracts of the most material acts of the British legislature, and other ordinances and regulations, for the equalization of our weights and measures from Magna Charta to the present time, &c. &c. By Sir John Riggs Miller, bart. Together with two letters from the Bishop of Autun to the author, upon the uniformity of weights and measures; the prelate's proposition, respecting, the same, to the National Assembly, and the decree of that body, of the 8th of May, conformable to the Bishop's proposition.-with English translations.
Miller, John Riggs, Sir, approximately 1744-1798.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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Observations on medical weights and measures.
Wilson, Charles.Date: [1859?]- Ephemera
Gestational calculator and weight conversion chart / SMA Nutrition.
SMA Nutrition.Date: [1992?]