A Cyclopaedia of Commerce, Mercantile Law, Finance, Commercial Geography and Navigation: Comprising Descriptive and statistical accounts of commodities, with customs and excise regulations, duties, &c. Commercial statistics of the different countries of the world, including their physical character, productions, trade, seaports, monies, measures, finances, &c. Summary of the principles of commerce, finance, and banking, with historical and statistical illustrations. Digest of commercial law, including insurance, partnership, principal and agent, bills of exchange, sale, guaranty, bankruptcy, shipping, and contracts and obligations in general. Commercial arithmetic and accounts, exchanges, coins, measures and weights, public funds, interest, annuities, and assurances, with numerous tables. Explanation of mercantile terms and usages, besides a variety of miscellaneous information. With four maps

Author: WATERSTON, William, and BURTON, John Hill
Title: A Cyclopaedia of Commerce, Mercantile Law, Finance, Commercial Geography and Navigation: Comprising Descriptive and statistical accounts of commodities, with customs and excise regulations, duties, &c. Commercial statistics of the different countries of the world, including their physical character, productions, trade, seaports, monies, measures, finances, &c. Summary of the principles of commerce, finance, and banking, with historical and statistical illustrations. Digest of commercial law, including insurance, partnership, principal and agent, bills of exchange, sale, guaranty, bankruptcy, shipping, and contracts and obligations in general. Commercial arithmetic and accounts, exchanges, coins, measures and weights, public funds, interest, annuities, and assurances, with numerous tables. Explanation of mercantile terms and usages, besides a variety of miscellaneous information. With four maps
Publication: London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844

Description: [Trade and Finance Encyclopaedia] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.iv; 684. With folding maps of England, Scotland, Ireland and the World, one as a frontispiece and three at rear. Extremely small print. Publisher's brown cloth, recently re-backed with original spine laid over. Gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a gilt device stamped to upper. All edges untrimmed. Some spotting and toning to plates, otherwise a crisp, clean copy. Repairs to hinges. Restored to a robust, attractive condition. Very good.

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