Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, The merchant’s directory. Being a compleat guide to all men in business, whether as traders, remitters, owners, freighters, captains, insurers, brokers, factors, supercargoes, agents. Containing an account for out trading companies and colonies, with their establishments, and an abstract of their charters; the duty of consuls, and the laws subsisting about aliens, naturalization and denization. To which is added a state of the present general traffick of the whole world; describing the manufactores and products of each particular nation: and tables of the correspondence and agreement of the European coins, weights, and measures, with the addiion of all others that are known. Extracted from the works of the best writers both at home and abroad; more especially from those justly celebrated ones of messieurs savary; iimproved and corrected by the author’s own observstions, during his long continuance in trade. The whole calculated for the use and service of the merchant, lawyer, senator, and gentleman. By Wyndham Beawes, Merchant.
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London: Printed for the author, by John moore, in Bartholomew Lane; and sold by Edmund Comyns, at the south gate of the Royal-Exchange, M.DCC.LII. [1752]
- Publication year
- 1752-1752
- ESTC No.
- T118418
- Grub Street ID
- 169967
- Description
- xvi,600,605-922,[20]p. ; 2⁰
- Note
- With a list of subscribers, and an index with a list of errata on the verso of the final leaf.
Pp.601-604 are omitted from the pagination and some text appears to be missing, athough the register is continuous.
Pages [i]-[ii] form an imprimatur leaf.
- Uncontrolled note
- PPT has same pagination, but catchword p.600: The; and 1st word p.605, Imports