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The universal dictionary of trade and commerce : with large additions and improvements, adapting the same to the present state of British affairs in America, since the last treaty of peace made in the year 1763 : with great variety of new remarks and illustrations incorporated throughout the whole: together with everything essential that is contained in Savary's Dictionary ; also, all the material laws of trade and navigation relating to these kingdoms, and the customs and usages to which all traders are subject / by Malachy Postlethwayt, Esq.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Postlethwayt, Malachy, 1707?-1767.
- Standardized Title:
- Dictionnaire universel de commerce. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commerce--Dictionaries.
- Commerce.
- Commercial law.
- Great Britain--Commerce.
- Great Britain.
- Commercial law--Dictionaries.
- Commercial law--Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : frontispiece, 24 folded maps., diagrams ; 43 cm (folio)
- Edition:
- The fourth edition.
- Other Title:
- Postlethwayt dictionary. PU
- Fingerprint:
- c.he nyom m-of sudo (3) 1774 (R) v.1
- e.he ksi. heif fiSA (3) 1774 (R) v.2
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, J. Hinton, MDCCLXXIV [1774]
- Notes:
- Two preliminary discourses on British commerce and commercial union between Great Britain and British America: v. 1, p. x1-1xvii.
- Pagination: v. 1: [2], iii, [1], iii-lxvii, [1], [1104] p., [12] leaves of folded plates; v. 2: [2], iii, [1], [992] p.
- Translation of: Dictionnaire universel de commerce, by Jacques Savary des Brûlons.
- The original work was completed by the author's elder brother, Abbé Philémon-Louis Savary.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy bound in full calf; title stamped in gold on spine.
- Culture Class Collection copy has unidentified armorial bookplate with mottoes "Nil admirari" and A cruce salus" on front pastedown.
- Cited in:
- Higgs, H. Bibl. of economics 5885
- Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 11096
- OCLC:
- 2813108
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