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Law, John (1671-1729).
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- Money and trade consider'd; with a proposal for supplying the nation with money. The second edition. London: for W. Lewis, 1720, [2], 96pp., [Goldsmiths 5819; Kress 3238]
Freind, John (1675-1728). An account of the Earl of Peterborow's conduct in Spain: chiefly since the raising the seige of Barcelona, 1706... The third edition, corrected. London: J.B. for Jonah Bowyer, 1708, [4], 107, [1]pp., [cf. Palau 94782]
The present state of the British court, or, an account of the civil and military establishment of England. London: for A. Bell [and others], 1720, [8], 200pp.
together 3 works in one volume, 8vo (185 x 110mm.), binding: nineteenth-century half calf, some soiling and cropping of headlines in the second work
The present state of the British court, or, an account of the civil and military establishment of England. London: for A. Bell [and others], 1720, [8], 200pp.
together 3 works in one volume, 8vo (185 x 110mm.), binding: nineteenth-century half calf, some soiling and cropping of headlines in the second work
Catalogue Note
In this, his seminal work (first published in Edinburgh in 1705), Law argued (erroneously) that increased money supply would lead to increased output, which in turn would lead to an export surplus.
The present state of the British court contains valuable information about the officers, their duties and salaries, of the royal household, the army and navy, the courts and the government, including: the officers and servants of the princesses' households, the Master of the Tennis Court, the Lord Almoner, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master of the Horse, grooms, wine porters and the groom of the Stole.