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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)
• Instruction des négocians : ouvrage utile aux juges & consuls, & à tous ceux qui font le commerce (Chez l'auteur ;, 1760), by P. J. Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorias instructivas y curiosas : sobre agricultura, comercio, industria, economía, química, botánica, historia natural &c, sacadas de las obras que hasta hoy han publicado varios autores extrangeros, y señaladamente las reales academias y sociedades de Francis, Inglaterra, Alemania, Prusia y Suecia (P. Marin, 1778), by Miguel Gerónimo Suárez y Núñez (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief essay on the advantages and disadvantages which respectively attend France and Great-Britain, with regard to trade. (Printed for John Stockdale ..., 1787), by Josiah Tucker and David Hume (page images at HathiTrust)
• Del commercio dissertazione (Nella Stamperia Remondini, 1757), by Girolamo Belloni (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to a merchant at Bristol, concerning a petition of S-- T--, Esq. to the King : for an exclusive grant to the trade of the River Senegal ... (Printed for G. Kearsly ..., 1762), by Merchant of London and Samuel Touchet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ragionamento intorno alla navigazione ed al commerzio (Appresso Giovambatista Penada, 1755), by Vincenzo Ricci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eröffnete Akademie der Kaufleute, oder vollständiges Kaufmanns-Lexicon : woraus sämmtliche Handlungen und Gewerbe, mit allen ihren Vortheilen, und der Art, sie zu treiben, erlernet werden können : und worinnen alle Seehäfen, die vornehmsten Städte und Handelsplätze, alle Arten der rohen und verarbeiteten Waaren, die Künstler, Fabrikanten und Handwerksleute, Commerciencollegia, Handelsgerichte, Banken, Börsen, Leihhäuser, Manufacturen, Fabriken und Werkstätte, die Rechte und Privilegien der Kaufmannschaft u.s.w. beschrieben und erkläret werden (Verlegts Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn, 1767), by Carl Günther Ludovici (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité général du commerce : contenant des observations sur le commerce des principaux États de l'Europe, les productions naturelles, l'industrie de chaque pays ... des détails sur les monnoies, poids & mesures, le cours des changes, les usages reçus en divers lieux rélativement à l'acquit des lettres de change, un rapport comparé des monnoies, poids & mesures, en douze tables, des régles sur l'arbitrage, avec plusieurs tables de combinaison de change ... ([s.n.], 1784), by Samuel Ricard and Tomás Antonio de Marien y Arróspide (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discursos mercuriales, memorias sobre la agricultura, marina, comercio y artes liberales y mecanicas (en la Imprenta de los Herederos de Lorenzo Mojados :, 1756), by Juan Enrique de Graef, Lorenzo Francisco Mojados, José Orcel, and Juan de San Miguel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les intérêts des nations de l'Europe, : dévélopés relativement au commerce. (Chez Elie Luzac, 1767), by Jacques Accarias de Sérionne and Elie Luzac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arrêt de la cour des monnoies de lyon : qui condamne, pour les contraventions y mentionnées aux Status, arrêts & réglemens de la Communauté de Tireurs-d'or ... en l'amende de cinq cent livres chacun consisque les marchandises sur eux saisies, & fait en outre les défenses & injonctions y portées : du 22 juin 1761. (de l'Imprimerie de P. Valfray ..., 1761), by Francia. Cour des monnaies de Lyon, Pierre Valfray, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second memoire servant de replique pour les jurés & Communauté de maîtres tireurs d'or de Paris défendeurs : contre le sieur Herman, pour un des deux Offices d'assineurs de Paris, prenant le fait & cause du sieur Girard, fermier des affinages, demandeur. (de l'Imprimerie de la veuve Paulus-du-Mesnil ..., 1758), by Pierre-Augustin Paulus-Du-Mesnil and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excise anatomiz'd : declaring that unequal imposition of excise to be the only cause of the ruin of trade, the universal impoverishment and destructive to the liberties of the whole nation (Printed and sold by M. Smith ..., 1733), by G. Z. and Zachary Crofton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Advantages of peace and commerce : with some remarks on the East-India trade. (Printed for J. Brotherton and Tho. Cox ... and sold by A. Dodd ..., 1991), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Discours de mr. le marquis Cesar Beccaria Bonesana, noble patricien Milanais, professeur royal de la chaire nouvellement établie par order de s.m. imperialse, pour le commerce & l'administration publique ... (Chez Franç. Grasset & Comp., 1769), by Cesare Beccaria, Bibliothèque des Fontaine, and Paris École Sainte Geneviève (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduzione generale allo studio della politica, delle finanze, e del commercio (Presso G. Bassaglia, 1773), by Louis de Beausobre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mandat und Ordnung : die Eröffnung und Widerauffrichtung der Trafica und Kauffmanshandelung der Hispanischen Königreiche und der Niderlande ... (Johan Francken, 1603) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verclaringhe oft uytroep in Spaengien, van weghen het handelen der Hoochduytscher coopmanschappen komende uyt het rycke van Groot Britangien ende Vrancryc in Spangien. (Jan Janssens, 1606) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A modest offer of some meet considerations, tendred to the English about their coyne and trade, and particularly to East India ([London : s.n., anno 1695]), by Joseph Hall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse of trade by N.B. ... (London : Printed by Tho. Milbourn for the author, 1690), by Nicholas Barbon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The merchants mappe of commerce wherein, the universall manner and matter of trade, is compendiously handled. The standerd and currant coines of sundry princes, observed. The reall and imaginary coines of accompts and exchanges, expressed. The naturall and artificiall commodities of all countries for transportation declared. The weights and measures of all eminent cities and tovvnes of traffique, collected and reduced one into another; and all to the meridian of commerce practised in the famous citie of London. By Lewes Roberts, merchant. Necessary for all such as shall be imployed in the publique affaires of princes in forreigne parts; for all gentlemen and others that travell abroad for delight or pleasure, and for all merchants or their factors that exercise the art of merchandizing in any part of the habitable world. (At London : Printed by R. O[ulton, Eliot's Court Press?, Thomas Harper, and Felix Kingston] for Ralph Mabb, MDCXXXVIII. [1638]), by Lewes Roberts and Cornelius van Dalen (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Englands safety in trades encrease most humbly presented to the high court of Parliament / by Henry Robinson ... (London : Printed by E. P. for Nicholas Bourne ..., 1641), by Henry Robinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The argument of a learned counsel, upon an action of the case brought by The East-India-Company. (London : printed for John Baker, near the Kings-Armes in Little Britain, 1700), by John Pollexfen and Henry Pollexfen (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proposal for remedding our excessive luxury. ([Edinburgh? : s.n., 1700?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The petition of the Lord Major, aldermen and common council-men of the city of London in Common Council assembled to the Parliament for the reducing of all foreign trade under government : as also the petition, together with the proposals of several merchants of London ... humbly tendered to the grand committee of Parliament for trade ; containing the desired manner and method for such regulation. (London : Printed by T.J. and are to be sold by Ralph Smith ..., 1662), by Corporation of London. Court of Common Council (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A vindication of some assertions relating to coin and trade from the reflections made by the author of the essay on ways and means, in his book, intituled, Discourses on the publick revenues, and on the trade of England,&c. part. II. (London : printed for Geo. Graston, in the Middle-Temple-Lane, 1699), by Charles Davenant and John Pollexfen (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The merchant a-la-mode. To the tune of Which no body can deny. (London: : Printed by J. Read in White-Fryers, near Fleet-Street, [1713]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Remarks on trade in a dialogue between a committee-man and an interloper. (London, : Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh, book-sellar to his Royal Highness, at the Black Bull in Cornhil; and entred according to order., 1683) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• 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)
• La banque rendue facile aux principales nations de l'Europe; suivie d'un nouveau traité de l'achat et de la vente des matieres d'or et d'argent; avec l'art de tenir les livres en parties doubles. (Impr. de Leroy, 1799), by Pierre Giraudeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• El contador moderno, ò sea practica moderna de contadores, en el modo de conocer los generos, diferiencias, y extracciones de la cantidad de la cantidad redituable, segun el sentido de sus contratos ... (por Antonio Sanz, 1734), by Valero Verbedel and Antonio Sanz (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the reader ([London : s.n., 1675]), by John Collins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Analysis or resolution of merchants accompts, by Ralph Handson. (London : Printed by W.G. for Robert Horne, 1669), by Raph Handson (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• De mercatura decisiones, et tractatus varii, et de rebus ad eam pertinentibus : in quibus omnium authorum, praecipuè Benvenuti Stracchae, iurisconsulti clarissimi, qui de mercatura ... scripsêre, tractatus libriq́ continentur, tum eorum etiam quae in praxim quotidianam possunt his de rebus occurrere materies explicatur. (Sumptibus Claudij Landry, 1621), by Benvenuto Stracca (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traité général du commerce : contenant des observations sur le commerce des principaux États de l'Europe, les productions naturelles, l'industrie de chaque pays ... des détails sur les monnoies, poids & mesures, le cours des changes, les usages reçus en divers lieux rélativement à l'acquit des lettres de change, un rapport comparé des monnoies, poids & mesures, en douze tables, des régles sur l'arbitrage, avec plusieurs tables de combinaison de change ... ([s.n.], 1784), by Samuel Ricard and Tomás Antonio de Marien y Arróspide (page images at HathiTrust)
• The center of The circle of commerce. Or, A refutation of a treatise, intituled The circle of commerce, or The ballance of trade, lately published by E.M. By Gerard Malynes merchant (London : Printed by VVilliam Iones, and are to be sold by Nicholas Bourne at the Royall Exchange, 1623), by Gerard Malynes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Saint George for England, allegorically described: by Gerrard De Malynes merchant (Imprinted at London : By Richard Field for William Tymme stationer, and are to be sold at the signe of the Floure de luce and Crowne in Pater-noster row, 1601), by Gerard Malynes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant. (London : Printed for Thomas Horne ..., 1700), by Lewes Roberts, Thomas Mun, and John Marius (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ballance of trade. (London : Printed by Iohn Dawson, for Nicholas Bourne: and are to be sold at the Royall Exchange, 1623), by Edward Misselden (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• By the Protector. A proclamation of assistance to the merchant adventurers of England, for the better carrying on of their trade, and for punishing of offenders against the same. (London : Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, Printers to His Highness, 1658), by England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) and Oliver Cromwell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The humble address of the right honourable Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled. Die Veneris 13 Decembris 1695. (London printed ;, and re-printed in Edinburgh : by John Reid, 1696), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Henry Sharpe Ironmonger, at the Three Golden Keys in Grace-church-street, ... ([London : s.n., 1690?]), by Henry Sharpe and Philip Fincher (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Arrêt du Conseil Royal des finances et commerce, faisant réglement sur l'octroi des vins, bières [et] eaux-de-vie en la ville de Nancy, du 26 mai 1763. (chez Thomas père et fils ..., 1763), by Francia. Conseil Royal des finances et commerce, Thomas, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Très-humbles et très-respectueuses remontrances, que présentent au Roi, notre très-honoré et souverain Seigneur, les gens tenans sa cour des aydes et finances de Normandie. (s.n., 1764), by Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur les eaux-de-vie, pour plusieurs marchands épiciers de Paris, faisant le commerce d'eaux-de-vie en gros. (de l'imprimerie de Moreau ..., 1764), by Edme-François Darigrand , Nicolas-François Moreau, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire concernant les eaux-de-vie, pour la communauté des maîtres limonadiers vendeurs d'eau-de-vie, esprits-de-vin et autres liqueurs. (de l'imprimerie de Moreau ..., 1764), by Edme-François Darigrand , Nicolas-François Moreau, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire concernant les eaux-de-vie, pour la communauté des maîtres vinaigriers, verjutiers ... distillateurs [et] vendeurs d'eau-de-vie [et] esprit-de-vin ... de Paris. (de l'imprimerie de Moreau ..., 1764), by Edme-François Darigrand , Nicolas-François Moreau, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres patentes du Roi, qui ordonnent que les vernis, soit de France, soit de l'etranger, euau-de-vie aromatisée, eau de cologne de melisse, mente et autres liqueurs spiritueses venant de l'etranger ... : données à Fontainebleau le 4 novembre 1772, registrées en Parlament le vingt-huit août 1773. (chez P.G. Simon, Imprimeur du Parlement, rue Mignon Saint André-des-Arcs, 1773), by Francia. Rey (1715-1774: Luis XV), Louis Phélypeaux, Rey de Francia Luis XV, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deux arrests du Conseil d'État du Roi, des 3 avril 1770 [et] 13 auôt 1771. (de l'imprimerie Royale, 1771), by Francia. Conseil d'État du Roi, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), and Imprimerie Royale (París) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur les inconvéniens qui résultent de la perception des droits imposés sur l'eau-de-vie, déterminée par les différens degrés d'un aréometre ... au produit et moins onéreuse au commerce et aux consommateurs. (s.n., 1772), by Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deux arrests du Conseil d'État du Roi, des 11 décembre 1770 [et] 23 juillet 1771. (de l'imprimerie Royale, 1771), by Francia. Conseil d'État du Roi, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), and Imprimerie Royale (París) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arrest de la Cour des aides, qui déclare bonnes et valables les saisies faites sur François Moussu, marchand epicier-distillareur à Paris, dans ses laboratoires ... des eaux-de-vie de melase qu'il y fabriquoit ... du 27 août 1776. (chez Knapen ..., 1776), by Francia. Cour des aydes, Knapen, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)

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