Great Britain - Colonies - Commerce - Early works to 1800
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The importance of the British plantations in America to this kingdom : with The state of their trade, and methods for Improving it, as also a description of the several colonies there.
Hall, FayrerDate: [1731]- E-books
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Considerations on the dispute now depending before the Honourable House of Commons, between the British, southern, and northern plantations in America. In a letter to.
A-r Z-hDate: [1731]- E-books
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The British negociator: or, Foreign exchanges made perfectly easy : Containing tables for all the various courses of exchange from, and the several coins equated of, Holland, Hamburgh, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Venice, Lechorn, Genoa, Denmark, Poland, Sweden, Russia, & Ireland. Together with tables and rules for exchanges, from Asia, Africa, and America, or the West-Indies: and the exchanges of the principal foreign nations with one another. Also, arbitrations of exchanges, in a new and concise method applicable to business. Likewise, the weights and measures of foreign nations. To which is annexed, several mercantile tables, equally useful to foreign traders and factors, and to inland merchants and dealers. And an essay on the nature and business of exchanging in general is prefixed, by way of introduction. The second edition, corrected and enlarged. By S. Thomas, merchant.
Thomas, S., 1723-1784.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- E-books
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Occasional reflections addressed to the people of Great Britain , by a bystander.
BystanderDate: MDCCLVII. [1757]- E-books
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An essay: or, scheme: towards establishing and improving the fishery, and other manuctures of Great-Britain . Humbly offered and dedicated to the North-Sea Company; and all true lovers of their Country, Nature, and Art. What goods and merchandize are proper for maritime traffick, whence they are to be bad, and what Gain and Profit they will produce to the said Company, for whose Use this small Treatise is Publish'd. The which will produce a far greater Treasure to the Crown, and this united Kingdom, than both the Indies. By Francis Cawood, of London Merchant, subscribed to in the Years, 1713, 1716, and 1720, now full and still Subsisting.
Cawood, FrancisDate: 1721