Chronicon Rusticum-Commerciale, or Memoirs of Wool. - A Collection of History and Argument Concerning the Woolen Manufacture and the Woolen Trade in general.
Language: English
Published by New York, Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1969
- Hardcover
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Seller: West Coast Rare Books, Westport, Mayo, IrelandWest Coast Rare Books
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Reprint of 1747. Two volumes. 14.5 x 22.5 cm. XVI, 422 + 576 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent, close to new condition. THE FIRST VOLUME includes for example the following chapters: Pliny and Columella, of Sheep and Wool / Strabo, of Wooden Manufacture / Polydore Virgil, of the first Invention of Spinning, Weaving, Fulling, Dying / History of the Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients by Mr. Huet. viz. of the Traffick of the Omanians in Perfa, to India and Arabia / The Perfian Trade of the Southern Seas / The Trade of Athens / The Argonauts Expedition to Colchis / The Manufacture, Trade and Taxes of England, from 1331 to 28 Edw. III. / Weavers come from Flanders, Brabant, and Zealand to England / Statutes for encouraging the Woolen Manufacture / Subsidies on Wool / the Prices of Wool / Rhe Quantity and Value of Wool exported; of Woolen Manufacture, both exported and imported / Regulations for weighing of Wool / Sheep sent from England to Spain / a Treaty of Commerce / reflecting the Woolen Manufacture; against exporting some of the Norfolk Wools / The price of Wool advanced: the Buying and the Exportion of Wool continued under former Limitations, of Time and Place / A Review of the English Woolen trade, during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth / The Interlopers and Merchants Adventurers, commonly called the Hamburgh Company / The Linen and Woolen Manufactory discoursed with the Nature of Companies and Trade in general, and particularly that of the Companies for the Linen Manufactury of England and Ireland / An Essay on the East India Trade, in a Letter to the Marquis of Normanby / England and East India inconsistent in their Manufactures / The Advantage of the East India Trade to England, etc. THE SECOND VOLUME includes for example the following chapters: Discourse concerning Ireland, and the different Interest thereof, in answer to the Exon and Barnstable Petitions / Woolen Manufacturers from Ireland to foreign Parts, what the Consequence thereof would be, both to England and Ireland, 1697-8 / An Accompt current between Scotland and England / History of Affairs with Scotland continued / The Origin and Causes of the vast Trade of Holland / The French, and Others, can support their Manufactures, without the Help of any English or Irish Wool / The Trade of Portugal confidered / The State of our Trade with Spain, as it flood upon the Peace of Utrecht / The Advantages arising to Great Britain / Letter to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, concerning the Trade of New England / Provision for the Poor; or a View of the decayed State of the Woolen Manufacture, with remarks on the Causes and evil Consequences thereof / The Weavers Pretences examined / The just Complaints of the poor Weavers truly represented / The English Woolen Manufacturers Remarks on the present declining State of their Trade for Exportation, and the Necessity there is of preventing the Irish Wool bein run / An Argument upon the Woolen Manufacture of Great Britain, plainly demonstrating that Ireland must speedily be employed therein, as the only Means to recover its Decay, and to prevent its Ruin / The Case of the British and Irish Manufacture of Linen, Thread, and Tapes / Observations on British Wool, and the manufacturing of it in this Kingdom, etc.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Chronicon Rusticum-Commerciale, or Memoirs of Wool. - A Collection of History and Argument Concerning the Woolen Manufacture and the Woolen Trade in general.
- Author
- Smith, John.
- Publisher
- New York, Augustus M. Kelley Publishers
- Publication year
- 1969
- Condition
- Sehr gut
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item weight
- 1,500 grams
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