The Merchants Map of Commerce: wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize, are fully treated of. Together with that most perfect treatise of trade, entitled, England's benefit and advantage by foreign trade demonstrated: by Tho. Mun, of London, merchant.

LEWES, Roberts.

Published by London: printed for Thomas Horne, 1700

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Fourth edition, much expanded from the first of 1638, of which Sabin noted, "This appears to have been the earliest systematic work on trade and commerce published in the English language". The work was a "comprehensive guidebook, which provided not only the standard topographical information sought by English travellers abroad, but also full details of local commodities, currency, weights and measures, and rates of exchange. It was an immediate success with the mercantile community, and revised editions were published in 1671, 1677, and 1700" (ODNB). It is distinctly mercantilist; Carl Menger stated it "represents the economic views of England of the seventeenth century more accurately than any other work of that age" (Menger, p. 318). This edition, unlike its predecessors, includes Thomas Mun's treatise, England's Treasure by Forraign Trade, the defining treatise of the mercantilist school. This marked England's Treasure's fourth appearance in print, following the editions of 1664, 1669, and 1698. ESTC R1436; Goldsmiths' 3671; Kress 2261; Sabin 71909; Wing R1601. Carl Menger, Principles of Economics, 1950. Folio (333 x 202 mm), pp. [4], 176, 185-431, [17], 67, [1] (collates complete; gap in pagination called for). Contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, red morocco label. Bookplate of John Somers (1788-1852), then Baron, later Earl Somers, and Member of Parliament for Reigate and Hereford. Stripping to covers, contents somewhat browned. A very good copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Merchants Map of Commerce: wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize, are fully treated of. Together with that most perfect treatise of trade, entitled, England's benefit and advantage by foreign trade demonstrated: by Tho. Mun, of London, merchant.
• Publisher: London: printed for Thomas Horne, 1700
• Edition: 1st Edition