Observations sur la Compagnie des Indes.

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Compagnie des Indes--Early works to 1800.

Compagnie des Indes.

Fur trade--Canada--Early works to 1800.

Fur trade.

Slave trade--France--Early works to 1800.

Slave trade.

Commerce.

History.

France--Commerce--Africa--History--18th century.

France.

France--Commerce--America--History--18th century.

France--Commerce--Asia--History--18th century.

Asia.

America.

Africa.

Canada.

Genre:

Codices.

Treatises.

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, European.

Physical Description:

leaves 35-49 : paper ; 327 x 206 (281 x 144) mm bound to 337 x 220 mm

Contained In:

Memoranda and observations on the Compagnie des Indes.

Other Title:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1031

Place of Publication:

[France], [after 1744]

Language Note:

French.

Summary:

A discussion of trade with the Indies, which concludes that the trade is beneficial but the Compagnie is not and argues that there should be free trade with Africa, Asia, and North America, with a particular emphasis on the trade in slaves and beaver pelts.

Contents:

Fol. 36-47: "[fol. 36r] Le commerce des Indes est-il avantageux à un etat? Ceux qui en doutent ...[fol. 47v] Rendre le commerce du castor libre en Canada."

Notes:

Ms. component part.

Title from caption heading (f. [36]r); date based on latest date in work (f. [39]r).

The paper folder that held both this document and the other now bound in the same volume has been bound in as well, as the cover of this document only, but both titles are written on it.

Foliation: Paper, i + [12] + ii.

Cited in:

Described in Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A(1). Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 28 (Ms. French 131).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1031

OCLC:

155928871