Observations on the commerce of the American states with Europe and the West Indies; : including the several articles of import and export. : Also, an essay on canon and feudal law. By John Adams, Esquire; ambassador plenipotentiary, from the United and Independent States of North America, to Their High Mightinesses the States General of the United Provinces of Holland. : To which is annexed, the political character of the said John Adams, Esquire; by an American. : Price half a dollar.

Format:

• Microformat

Author/Creator:

• Sheffield, John Holroyd, Earl of, 1735-1821.

Contributor:

• Adams, John, 1735-1826.

Series:

• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17976.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Adams, John, 1735-1826.
• Commerce.
• Law--History.
• Law.
• History.
• Great Britain--Commerce--United States.
• Great Britain.
• United States.
• United States--Commerce--Great Britain.
• United States--Commerce--West Indies.
• West Indies--Commerce--United States.
• West Indies.

Genre:

• Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Physical Description:

• 2 unnumbered pages, 77 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm (8vo)
• 4x6 in.
• monochrome
• service copy
• negative

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-STreet, M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]

Notes:

• Attributed to the Earl of Sheffield in the Dictionary of national biography.
• "Observations on the commerce of the American states with Europe and the West Indies ..."--p. [1]-43, with separate title page.
• "An essay on canon and feudal law. By John Adams, Esquire ... To which is annexed, the political character of the said John Adams, Esquire; by an American."--p. [44]-62, with title page on p. [44] (verso of leaf F2).
• "Thomas Halroyd, now Thomas Lord Sheffield ... his additional notes, to the second edition of his pamphlet, on the commerce of the American states."--p. [63]-73. This and the following pages are not present in all copies.
• "A short dissertation upon commerce."--p. 73-77.
• Bookseller's advertisement, p. [78].
• Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17976).

Cited in:

Evans 17976

OCLC:

55811125