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Account book of the ship Minerva.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Houqua, 1769-1843.
- Alcohol.
- Ballast (Ships).
- Clothing and dress.
- Commerce.
- Compradors.
- Cost.
- Cotton.
- Customhouses.
- Exports.
- Factories.
- Ginseng.
- Hides and skins.
- Imports.
- Invoices.
- Ivory.
- Law.
- Lead.
- Linguistics.
- Metals.
- Opium.
- Porcelain.
- Prices.
- Sandalwood.
- Ships.
- Silk.
- Spices.
- Sugar.
- Tariff.
- Tea.
- Weights and measures.
- China--Guangzhou.
- China--Huangpu Qu (Guangzhou Shi).
- China--Macau.
- Pacific Ocean--China Sea.
- Pacific Ocean--Sunda Strait (Java Sea).
- Genre:
- Account books
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1809.
- Summary:
- The first part of this account book lists expenses incurred during a stay at Canton. In the back of the book the captain and his clerk have added detailed remarks about the Canton System and the Hong merchants who they met.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: MH-20, box 10, folder 4
- Collection: Benjamin Shreve Papers (1793-1848)
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Phillips Library catalogue.
- Title from publisher's website.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed October 30, 2024).
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