Folio. 465 leaves collating in twos: advertisement by Beawes below the Imprimatur on the verso of the first leaf.
Marvin, page 105.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 166, 3.
Bridgman, page 15.
Clarke, page 325, no. 6.
Calf, rebacked and repaired, m.e., silk bookmark; with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate inlaid in the new endpapers.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
Pages 640-657 deal with trade with America.
Wyndham Beawes, fl. 1745-1765. For another work founded on that of Savary see the following entry.
[2101]
J. 4
Postlethwait’s dictionary.
2. v.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 83. no. 10, Postlethwait’s Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, 2 v. fol.
POSTLETHWAYT,
Malachy.
The Universal Dictionary of trade and commerce: with large additions and improvements, adapting the same to the present state
of British Affairs in America, since the last Treaty of Peace made in the year 1763. With great variety of new remarks and
illustrations incorporated throughout the whole: together with every thing essential that is contained in Savary’s Dictionary
. . . By Malachy Postlethwayt, Esq; The
third edition. Vol. I [-II].
London: Printed for
H. Woodfall,
A. Millar [and others],
mdcclxvi
. [1766]
HF1001 .S27
2 vol. Folio. 535 and 471 leaves, collating in twos, engraved frontispiece by C. Mosley in the first volume; 12 engraved maps in each volume, engraved vignettes on the titles, title-pages printed in red and black;
text in double columns.
Marvin, page 577.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 170, 32.
Not in Clarke.
Old calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
From the library of Thomas Mann Randolph, with his autograph signature on the inside cover of each volume:
Thomas M. Randolph. Cost £4.10 ster
g
, in both volumes.
In a letter to John Quincy Adams, the Secretary of State, written from Monticello on November 1, 1817, Jefferson referred
him to this copy: “
. . . the reports of the Committees of parliament of 1758.9. I think you will find in Postlethwait’s Dict
y. which is also in the library Chap. 20. N
o. 10 . . .
”
Malachy Postlethwayt, c. 1707-1767, English economic writer, devoted twenty years to the preparation of this Dictionary, first published in 1751-1755,
and founded on the work of J. Savary des Brulons. See also the previous entry.
[2102]
J. 5
Institutions commerciales par Boucher.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 83. no. 7, as above.
BOUCHER,
Pierre B.
Institutions commerciales, traitant de la Jurisprudence marchande et des Usages du Négoce, d’après les anciennes et nouvelles
Lois . . . Dédié au Conseil d’Etat; Par Boucher, associé libre du Lycée des Arts de Paris et autres Sociétés savants . . .
A
Paris: chez
Levrault frères, les mèmes, à
Strasbourg, l’Auteur, An
x
.--
1801.
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