The dictionary of merchandize, and nomenclature in all languages, for the use of counting houses. Containing the history, places of growth, culture, use, and marks of excellency, of such natural productions as form articles of commerce; with their names in all European languages / By C. H. Kauffman.

  • Kauffman, C. H.
Date:
1805
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Credit: The dictionary of merchandize, and nomenclature in all languages, for the use of counting houses. Containing the history, places of growth, culture, use, and marks of excellency, of such natural productions as form articles of commerce; with their names in all European languages / By C. H. Kauffman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. a®**= JL HE object of this Dictionary is, to give an account of tlie origin, places of growth, culture, use, and the marks by which the excellency may be ascertained, of those principal productions of nature, which form materials for commerce; some of these in their original raw state, as spices, seeds, corn, w'oods, fruit. See. others after having received a new form from human art, as metals, oils, spirits, ashes, salts, flax, &c. But such articles of trade, as have undergone a still further change, to make them fit for use, and which are comprehended under the general denomination of manufactures, as cloths, callicoes, muslins, hardware, earthenware, glass, &c. are ex- cluded from the present work, as being objects not so univer- sally interesting, and requiring by themselves a Dictionary of much larger volume than this. The extent of this undertaking, is such, that no man has opportunity or ability, to get thoroughly acquainted with every material of traffic, so as to describe it from his own ex- perience. But the author having been in business for a num- ber of years, and during his travels in most parts of Europe, made it his study, to enquire into the nature of merchandize, flatters himself, to have given from his own observations, a more true and full account of many articles, than there was ever published before. This
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