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• Lex Mercatoria Rediviva, or, The Merchant's Directory: Being a Compleat Guide to All Men in Business (Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, 1754), by Wyndham Beawes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lex Mercatoria Rediviva, or, The Merchant's Directory: Being a Complete Guide to All Men in Business (6th edition; Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, 1773), by Wyndham Beawes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)
• A Discourse of Trade, by Nicholas Barbon (text at McMaster)
• The System or Theory of the Trade of the World, by Isaac Gervaise (text at McMaster)

• The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)

• The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean (2 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807), by William Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Circle of Commerce, or the Ballance of Trade, in Defence of Free Traded (London: Printed by John Dawson, 1623), by Edward Misselden (PDF at McMaster)
• A Discourse of Trade, by Roger Coke (text at McMaster)
• England's Treasure by Forraign Trade, by Thomas Mun (text at McMaster)
• A Treatise of the Canker of Englands Common Wealth, by Gerard Malynes (PDF at McMaster)
• The Complete English Tradesman (based on the 1839 Edinburgh edition), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
• Lex Mercatoria Rediviva, or, The Merchant's Directory: Being a Compleat Guide to All Men in Business (Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, 1754), by Wyndham Beawes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lex Mercatoria Rediviva, or, The Merchant's Directory: Being a Complete Guide to All Men in Business (6th edition; Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, 1773), by Wyndham Beawes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Maintenance of Free Trade, by Gerard Malynes (text at McMaster)
• Free Trade: or, The Meanes to Make Trade Florish, by Edward Misselden (text at McMaster)

• 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 (London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, and J. Almon, 1769), by Alexander Clúny (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia, by Anthony Jenkinson and Other Englishmen; With Some Account of the First Intercourse of the English with Russia and Central Asia by Way of the Caspian Sea (reprint of the 2-volume Hakluyt Society edition of 1886), ed. by E. Delmar Morgan and C. H. Coote, contrib. by Anthony Jenkinson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo (London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1797), by Bryan Edwards
  • page images at loc.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Discourse of Trade, by Roger Coke (text at McMaster)

• Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia, by Anthony Jenkinson and Other Englishmen; With Some Account of the First Intercourse of the English with Russia and Central Asia by Way of the Caspian Sea (reprint of the 2-volume Hakluyt Society edition of 1886), ed. by E. Delmar Morgan and C. H. Coote, contrib. by Anthony Jenkinson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (scholar's edition; Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, c1998), by Ludwig Von Mises (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
• Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (4th edition, 1996), by Ludwig Von Mises (HTML at econlib.org)
• Inflation, Trade, and Taxes: Essays in Honor of Alice Bourneuf (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by David A. Belsley, Edward J. Kane, Paul A. Samuelson, and Robert M. Solow (PDF at Ohio State)
• General-Equilibrium Theory in International Trade (Cowles Foundation monograph #7; Bloomington, IN: Principia Press, 1944), by Jacob L. Mosak (PDF at Yale)
• Essai Sur La Nature du Commerce en General (in English), by Richard Cantillon
  • text files at McMaster
  • HTML at econlib.org
• Studies in the Theory of International Trade (originally published 1937), by Jacob Viner (HTML at econlib.org)
• Brief Observations Concerning Trade, and Interest of Money, by Josiah Child (text at McMaster)
• A Discourse on Public Economy and Commerce, by Cesare Beccaria (text at McMaster)
• Discourses Upon Trade, by Dudley North (text at McMaster)
• Voyages and Commercial Enterprises of the Sons of New England (New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1855), by Richard J. Cleveland (page images at Mystic Seaport)
• Money, Method, and the Market Process, by Ludwig Von Mises, ed. by Margit Von Mises, contrib. by Richard M. Ebeling (multiple formats with commentary at mises.org)

• Official Guide for Shippers and Travellers to the Principal Ports of the World (1919-1920), by Osaka Shosen Kabushiki Kaisha, ed. by M. Franklin Kline (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Official Guide for Shippers and Travellers to the Orient (1917-1918), by Osaka Shosen Kabushiki Kaisha, ed. by M. Franklin Kline (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A History of Business (2 volumes; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1963), by Miriam Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of the Business Man (New York: Macmillan, 1938), by Miriam Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1), by Edward Potts Cheyney (Gutenberg text)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by Edward Potts Cheyney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean, by a Merchant of the First Century (New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912), ed. by Wilfred H. Schoff (page images at HathiTrust)

• Overseas Business Reports (partial serial archives)
• World Trade Information Service (partial serial archives)
• The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review (1839-1870) (full serial archives)
• Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (in German) (partial serial archives)
• The Economist (partial serial archives)
• System (1900-1927) (partial serial archives)

• Balancing Power without Weapons: State Intervention into Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018), by Ashley Thomas Lenihan (PDF and HTML at Cambridge University Press)

• Accounting Theory: Continuity and Change (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962), by A. C. Littleton and V. K. Zimmerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Structure of Accounting Theory (Urbana, IL: American Accounting Association, 1953), by A. C. Littleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Management Accounting for Profit Control (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1957), by I. Wayne Keller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Management Through Accounts (New York: Ronald Press Co., c1924), by James H. Bliss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Budgetary Control (second printing; New York: Ronald Press, 1923), by James Oscar McKinsey (page images at HathiTrust)

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