Lex mercatoria rediviva, or, The merchant's directory
being a complete guide to all men in business, whether as traders, remitters, owners, freighters, captains, insurers, brokers, factors, supercargoes, agents. Containing an account of our trading companies and colonies, with there 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 manufactures and products of each particular nation : and tables of the correspondence and agreement of the European coins, weights, and measures, with the addition 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 Messiers Savary; improved and corrected by the author's own observations, during his long continuance in trade: the whole calculated for the use and service of the merchant, lawyer, senator, and gentleman / by Wyndham Beawes, Esa., his Britannick Majesty's consul at Seville and St. Lucar
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Author
Contributions
- Savary des Brûlons, Jacques, 1657-1716 - Contributor
- Levy, Samson, 1761-1831, former owner - Contributor
- Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress) - Contributor
Publication
1761 - Printed for R. Baldwin at the Rose, and S. Crowder and Co. at the Looking-Glass, in Pater-Noster-Row, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
224,500 words, Guess
Page Count
898 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24811281M
- OCLC Control Number8643508
- Internet Archivetorquemadaspanis00saba
- Library of Congress Control Number14000814
Classifications
- LCCKD1629 .B43 1761
Alternate Titles
- Lex mercatoria rediviva
- Merchant's directory
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