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The merchants map of commerce: wherein the universal manner and matter of trade is compendiously handled. The standard and current coins of sundry princes observed. The real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges expressed. The natural and artificial commodities o all countreys for transportation declared. The weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick, collected and reduced one into another; and all to the meridian of commerce practised in the famous city of London. By Lewes Roberts, merchant. Necessary for all such as shall be imployed in the publick affairs of princes in foreign parts, for all gentlemen and others that travel abroad for delight or pleasure, and for all merchants or their factors that exercise the art of merchandizing in any part of the habitable world.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640 22141
- Standardized Title:
- Merchants mappe of commerce
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weights and measures--Early works to 1800.
- Weights and measures.
- Coinage--Early works to 1800.
- Coinage.
- Exchange--Early works to 1800.
- Exchange.
- Balance of trade--Early works to 1800.
- Balance of trade.
- Great Britain--Commerce--Early works to 1800.
- Local Subjects:
- Great Britain--Commerce--Early works to 1800.
- Physical Description:
- [20], 431, [17] p., [4] leaves of plates : fold. maps ; 4to.
- Edition:
- The third edition corrected and much enlarged.
- Other Title:
- Map of commerce
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for R. Horn, at the south entrance of the Royal Exchange; and are to be sold by J. Wright, at the Crown on Ludgate-Hill; R. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls's Church-Yard; and T. Sawbridge, at the Three Flower-deluces in Little-Britain, MDCLXXVII. [1677]
- Notes:
- In three parts, each with separate divisional title.
- Includes 2 epistles signed by author and 9 pages of poems dedicated to the author.
- Running title: The map of commerce.
- Includes indexes.
- Identified on UMI microfilm "Early English books, 1641-1700" reel 1858 as Wing (2nd ed.) R1600.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP
- Cited in:
- ESTC R216805
- Goldsmiths', 2210
- Wing (2nd ed.), R1600A
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