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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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A letter from a merchant of the city of London, To the R---t H----ble W---- P---- Esq; Upon the Affairs and Commerce of North America, and the West-Indies; Our African Trade; the Destination of Our Squadrons and Convoys; New Taxes, and the Schemes proposed for raising the extraordinary Supplies for the current Year.
Merchant of London.Date: 1757- Books
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Britain's commercial interest explained and improved; In a series of dissertations on several important branches of her trade and police: containing a candid enquiry into the secret causes of the present misfortunes of the nation. With a proposals for their remedy. Also the great advantages which would accrue to this kingdom from an union with Ireland. By Malachy Postlethwayt, Esq; author of The universal dictionary of trade and commerce, &c.
Postlethwayt, Malachy, 1707?-1767.Date: M,DCC,LVIII. [1758]- Books
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A discourse on trade, and other matters relative to it. Viz. Of Trade in general: Of the Trade of England: Of Husbandry, Feeding, Tillage, Corn, Fruit, Fish, Minerals, Trees, Manufactures, Sheep-Wool, Cotton-Wool. Hemp and Flax: Glass, Earthen-Ware, Silk, Distilling: The great Advantages of a universal National Bank demonstrated: Sugar-Baking, Tobacco, Tanning, Clock-Work, Paper - Mills, Powder - Mills: Method to improve our Manufactures, by imploying the Poor: Of Courts of Merchants, Silver Coin: An effectual Method to prevent the Running of Wool: Of our Trade to the East and West-Indies, Africa, the Plantations, Iceland, the Canaries, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Italy, Holland, Hamburgh, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, France, South-Sea, &c. What foreign Trades are profitable, and what not. An Essay on National Credit, and the Irish Linnen Manufacture, &c. &c. &c. Wrote at the request of several Members of Parliament. And now Published for universal Benefit. By John Cary, Esq; Merchant of Bristol.
Cary, John, -1720?.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and navigation, of Great Britain, since the conclusion of the peace in 1783.
Rose, George, 1744-1818.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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The trade of Britain stated; being the substance of two papers published in London on occasion of the importation of wine and brandy from North-Britain
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1707]- Books
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A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose, Esq.
Rose, George, 1744-1818.Date: 1800- Books
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Four tracts, on political and commercial subjects. The third edition. By Josiah Tucker, D.D. Dean of Glocester.
Tucker, Josiah, 1712-1799.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A collection of several British and Irish Acts, and extracts from Acts relating to the trade and revenue of Ireland, in the sessions of 1779 and 1780. With Some Forms of Informations on the same, and other Acts, &c. By Gorges Edmond Howard, Esq; Solicitor for the said Revenue.
Great Britain.Date: 1780- Books
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The British merchant: a collection of papers relating to the trade and commerce of Great Britain and Ireland. First published by Mr. Charles King, from the originals of Sir Theodore Janssen, Bart. Sir Charles Cooke, Henry Martin, Esq; James Milner, Esq; Mr. Nathaniel Toriano, Mr. Joshua Gee, Mr. Christopher Haynes, Mr. David Martin, and Others the most eminent Merchants of the City of London. In Three Volumes.
King, Charles, fl. 1721.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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An humble proposal to the people of England, for the encrease of their trade, and encouragement of their manufactures; Whether the present uncertainity of affairs issues in peace or war. By the author of the compleat tradesman.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1729- Books
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Proposals for carrying on the war with vigour, Raising the Supplies within the Year, And Forming a national militia. To which are added, Considerations in Respect to Manufacturers and Labourers, and the Taxes paid by them; the Inconveniencies of Credit for small Sums, and the Courts lately erected to recover them. Intended to demonstrate, That it is not the Dearness of the Labour of the Poor, but the Profits and Expences of higher Classes of People, which are the real Clog on the Foreign Trade and Commerce of England.
Date: 1757- Books
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An essay on the causes of the decline of the foreign trade, consequently of the value of the lands of Britain, and on the means to restore both.
Decker, Matthew, Sir, 1679-1749.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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A reply to Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart. in which that part of his letter to the author which most particularly respects the present state of The Iron Trade between England and Ireland is considered By William Gibbons.
Gibbons, William, 1732-1807.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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The advantages of peace and commerce; with some remarks on the East-India trade.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1729- Pictures
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English commerce is shown as a cow milked by the Dutch, the horns sawn off by the Americans and its milk drunk by the French and the Spanish, while an Englishman wrings his hands at this distressing sight. Etching, ca. 1780.
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A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose, Esq.
Rose, George, 1744-1818.Date: 1799- Books
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A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose, Esq.
Rose, George, 1744-1818.Date: 1799- Books
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A report to the Honourable the Commissioners for putting in execution the act, intitled, An act, for the taking, examining, and stating the publick accounts of the Kingdom. From Charles Davenant. L. L. D. Inspector General of the Exports and Imports. Part I.
Davenant, Charles, 1656-1714.Date: [1712]- Books
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A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose, Esq.
Rose, George, 1744-1818.Date: 1799- Books
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The complete English tradesman: directing him in the several parts and progressions of trade. In two volumes. ... In Familiar Letters, Treating of the several Points necessary to be known by the Younger Tradesman, as well in his Apprenticeship, as on his first Entring upon Business; with regard to Diligence, Over-Trading, Expensive Living, Too-Early Marrying, Diversions, Credit, Partnerships, Compounding, Trading-Frauds, Punctuality, and many other material Subjects. With a Supplement; containing farther Useful Instructions to a Tradesman, and brief and plain Specimens of Book-Keeping, &c. ... In Two Parts: Containing, I. Needful Instructions to the More-Experienc'd Tradesman; with regard to Projects, Engrossing, Underselling, Combinations, Leaving off Business, Litigiousness, &c. II. Useful Generals in Trade, describing the Principles and Foundations of the Home-Trade of Great Britain, with large Tables of the British Manufactures, Product, Shipping, Land-Carriage, Importation, Home-Consumption, &c. The whole calculated for the use of all our inland tradesmen, as well in the city as in the country.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1727]-32- Books
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A letter from a merchant of the city of London, To the R---t H----ble W---- P---- Esq; Upon the Affairs and Commerce of North America, and the West-Indies; Our African Trade; the Destination of Our Squadrons and Convoys; New Taxes, and the Schemes proposed for raising the extraordinary Supplies for the current Year.
Merchant of London.Date: 1757- Books
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A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799.
Rose, George, 1744-1818.Date: 1799- Books
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Considerations sur le commerce et la navigation de la Grande-Bretagne. Ouvrage traduit de l'anglois de Mr. Joshua-Gee, sur la quatriéme edition.
Gee, Joshua, merchant.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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Thoughts on the causes of the present failures.
Roscoe, William, 1753-1831.Date: [1793]