The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield Removed from Shirburn Castle, Part Eight: Theology, Philosophy, Law, and Economics

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Lot 2742
  • 2742

King, Charles (fl. 1713-1721).

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • The British merchant; or, commerce preserv'd. In three volumes. London: John Darby, 1721
3 volumes, 8vo (229 x 139mm.), liv, 378, [2 (blank)]; vi, 443, [1 (blank)]; [2], vi, 3-382, [36]pp., list of subscribers on pp. xxxix-liv (including the Rt. Hon. Thomas Lord Parker), 2 folding letterpress tables, illustration: woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, binding: contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt in compartments, extremities slightly rubbed

Literature

Goldsmiths 5943; Kress 3389

Catalogue Note

The British Merchant was a periodical published in 1713-1714, at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, in opposition to proposed treaties to reduce the duties on French imports, and in response to Daniel Defoe's Mercator, which supported the treaties.