Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1939
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/49
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ECONOMICS—continued. 55 GOLDEN FLEECE (The), or OLD ENGLAND RESTORED to its Old Honest Vocation, by J. F., a Well-wisher to Industry, 8 pp., sm. 4to., hf. cl., 1679 £1 10s 56 HAINES (R.) A BreviaT of some Proposats . . . for the Speedy Restoring the Woollen Manufacture, by a Method practiced in other Nations, 8 pp., sm. 4to., Af. cl., 1679 £1 10s These proposals were approved by Prince Rupert and the Earl of Shaftes- bury. 57 [HAINES (R.)] PRoposats for BUILDING in every COUNTY a WORKING- ALMSHOUSE, or HOSPITAL, as the Best Expedient to Perfect the Trade and Manufactory of Linnen-Cloth, sm. 4to., hf. cl., 1677 £1 10s 58 HAYNE (Samuel) Asstract of all the STATUTES concerning ALIENS trading in ENGLAND... with Observations, proving that the Jews break them all to the Great Damage of the King, the Mer- chants in their Trade, and His Majesty’s Plantations in America, sm. 4to., hf. calf (small hole in one leaf), 1685 £5 59 INTEREST OF MONEY MISTAKEN, or a TREATISE, proving that the Abatement of Interest is the Effect and not the Cause of the Riches of a Nation, and that Six Per Cent is a Proportionable Interest to the Present Conditions of this Kingdom, 24 pp., sm. 4to., hf. cl., 1668 £3 Probably privately printed as neither printer nor Author is mentioned. 60 LETTER to a MEMBER of PARLIAMENT on the SETTLING a TRADE to the SouTH-SEA of AMERICA, 14 pp., 8vo., hf. cl., Printed for F. Phillips, 1711 £1 With a list of Commodities which would be saleable in Peru, Chile and Mexico. 61 ROE (Sir Thomas) SPEECH in PARLIAMENT . . . the Cause of the Decay of Coine and Trade in this Land, especially of Merchants Trade, 16 pp., sm. 4to., Af. cl., 1641 f1 62 [SHAW (James)] CERTAINE PLAINE and EASIE DEMONSTRATIONS of divers EAsie WAyYEsS and Means for the IMPROVING of any MANNER of BARREN LAND, although the same bee not worth xij.d. the Acre . . . published for the Increasing of the Wealth and Prosperitie of the Nation, 12 leaves, sm. 4to., vellum, Printed by T. F.,1657 £5 10s
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