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Subject Terms Commerce.

1. An historical account of the rise and growth of the West- India collonies : and of the great advantages they are to England, in respect to trade : licenced according to order.

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Creator:: Thomas, Dalby, Sir
Date:: 1690
Physical Description:: [6], 53, [1] pages : 1 table ; 20 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A description of the windward passage, and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to, and from the island of Jamaica : also an account of the trade-winds, and of the variable winds and currents on the coasts thereabouts, at different seasons of the tear : illustrated with a chart of the coast of Florida, and of the islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller islands, shoals, rocks, and other remarkable things in the course of the navigation in the West-Indies : whereby is demonstrated, the precariousness of those voyages to the West-India merchants, and the impossibility of their homeward-bound ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's : the whole very necessary for the information of such as never were in those parts of the world : to which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies ...

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Creator:: Cowley, J. (John)
Physical Description:: 23, [5] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts