J. 47
Tract on American commerce. viz. Memoire pour les negocians de l’Orient.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 106. no. 407, Tract on American Commerce, to wit, Memoire pour les Negocians de l’Orient, 4to.
Mémoire pour des Négocians de l’Orient, intéressés au commerce des Etats-Unis; contre la Ferme Générale. [
Paris: De l’Imprimerie de
L. F. Prault, Imprimeur de Roi,
1788.]
HF3025 .L6
4to. 48 leaves: [ ]
1, A-G
4, H
3, A-D
4, the last a blank, 8 folded tables, the second alphabet for the
Pièces Justificatives with separate pagination, printer’s imprint at the end of each part. Bound in this copy is a second copy of the
Mémoire (without the
Pièces Justificatives), and the
Résumé De l’Avis du Marquis de la Fayette au Comité du Commerce avec les Etats-Unis, lorsque la question du Tabac nous a été
présentée, the Réponse De MM. les Fermiers Généraux sous le titre suivant, and the Observations Du Marquis de la Fayette sur
la réfutation de son Avis
, in three parallel columns on six folio sheets folded.
Sabin 47524.
Not in Arents.
Contemporary French calf, lettered on a label on the back:
American /
Commerce /, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Concerned with the tobacco trade.
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48
The American Traveller.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 105. no. 349, as above, 4to p.
[CLUNIE,
Alexander.]
The American Traveller: or, observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British Colonies in America, and
the further improvements of which they are capable; with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each Colony respectively,--and
of the numbers of British Ships and Seamen, Merchants, Traders and Manufacturers employed by all collectively: together with
the amount of the revenue arising to Great-Britain therefrom. In a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honourable
the Earl of ********* by an Old and Experienced Trader.
London: Printed for
E. and C. Dilly, and
J. Almon,
mdcclxix
. [1769.]
E162 .C64
4to. 65 leaves, engraved frontispiece, folded map.
Halkett and Laing I, 66.
Sabin 13796.
Dibdin,
Library Companion II, 65.
Entered by Jefferson without price in his undated manuscript catalogue.
Jefferson mentioned this work in a letter to Brissot de Warville, written from Paris on August 16, 1786: “
. . . when you proceed to form your table of American exports, & imports, I make no doubt you will consult the American traveller,
the estimates in which are nearer the truth than those of L
d. Sheffield & Deane, as far as my knowlege of the facts enables me to judge . . .
”
In a copy in the Library of Congress the author has signed his name
Alex
r Clunie
.
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Reeves’s history of the Law of shipping & navigñ.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 104. no. 342, as above.
REEVES,
John.
A History of the Law of Shipping and Navigation. By John Reeves, Esq. Author of “The History of the English Law.”
Dublin: Printed by
Thomas Burnside, for Messrs.
E. Lynch,
P. Wogan,
P. Byrne [and others],
1792.
Law 320
