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Smith (John)

Chronicon Rusticum-Commerciale; or, Memoirs of Wool, &c. &c. Being a collection of history and argument, concerning the woolen manufacture and woolen trade in general, particularly, the rise, progress, improvements, declensions, revolutions, and the respective causes thereof (with a view of the different prices of wool, at certain distant periods) in England.

London: Printed for T. Osborne, 1747.,

493,76 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, Regno Unito)

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Autore
Smith (John)
Editori
London: Printed for T. Osborne, 1747.
Soggetto
ECONOMICS AGRICULTURE WOOL TRADE SHEEP

Descrizione

First edition, 2 vols., 8vo (197 x 120 mm), [8], xlii, [xii, list of subscribers], [2, errata leaf], 422; 576pp., title and prelims of vol. I a little spotted, cont. calf, rebacked, rubbed. The first major work on the wool trade to be written in English, written to oppose restrictions on the exportation of wool. Smithís work provides a historical compendium on the subject, particularly in Great Britain. ìThis is one of the most carefully compiled and valuable works that has been published on the history of any branch of trade.îóMcCulloch. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Cornelius Walford; bookplate and a couple of neat stamps of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. McCulloch, Literature of Political Economy, 237.
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