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Subject Terms Commerce.

1. The American traveller, or, Observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British colonies in America, and the further improvements of which they are capable : with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each colony respectively, and of the numbers of British ships and seamen, merchants, traders and manufacturers employed by all collectively : together with the amount of the revenue arising to Great-Britain therefrom : in a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honourable the Earl of ******** / by an old and experienced trader.

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Creator:: Clúny, Alexander
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: [8], 122 pages, [2] leaves of plates, (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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

3. 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

4. A collection of tracts on wet-docks for the port of London, with hints on trade and commerce and on free-ports.

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Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [111] p. 4 fold. plans (part col.) 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts