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• Commerce -- Early works to 1800

• 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)

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• 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)

• EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History, ed. by Robert Whaples (HTML at eh.net)

• The Casting-Counter and the Counting-Board: A Chapter in the History of Numismatics and Early Arithmetic (Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1916), by Francis Pierrepont Barnard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Accounting Historians Journal (issues online 1974-2013) (partial serial archives)
• The Accounting Historians Notebook (issues online 1978-2013) (partial serial archives)

• Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the Twenty-First Century (fourth edition; c2005), by J. W. Smith (PDF with commentary at ied.info)

• Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by David A. Lake (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell)

• Neighbours and Networks: The Blood Tribe in the Southern Alberta Economy, 1884-1939 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2009), by W. Keith Regular (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Records From Erech: Time of Nabonidus (555-538 B.C.) (Yale Oriental series, Babylonian texts v6; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920), ed. by Raymond Philip Dougherty
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Neighbours and Networks: The Blood Tribe in the Southern Alberta Economy, 1884-1939 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2009), by W. Keith Regular (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by David Harris Sacks (HTML at UC Press)

• The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1928), by Verner W. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation and Crisis, 1567-1767 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Robert J. Ferry (HTML at UC Press)

• The Mystery of the Danube: Showing How Through Secret Diplomacy, That River Has Been Closed, Exportation From Turkey Arrested, and the Re-Opening of the Isthmus of Suez Prevented (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1851), by David Urquhart (page images at Google)

• Weak Foundations: The Economy of El Salvador in the Nineteenth Century, 1821-1898 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes (HTML at UC Press)

• Medieval Merchants and Money: Essays in Honour of James L. Bolton (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2016), ed. by Martin Allen and Matthew P. Davies (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• The Overseas Trade of London: Exchequer Customs Accounts, 1480-1, ed. by Henry S. Cobb (HTML at British History Online)
• The Port and Trade of Early Elizabethan London: Documents, ed. by Brian Dietz (HTML at British History Online)

• The French Council of Commerce, 1700-1715: A Study of Mercantilism After Colbert (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Thomas J. Schaeper (PDF at Ohio State)
• Le Goût Chinois en France au Temps de Louis XIV (in French; Paris: Jouve, 1910), by Hélène Belevitch-Stankevitch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Maritime Enterprise, 1485-1558 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1913), by James A. Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust, may not be accessible outside the United States.

• The Best of Defoe's Review: An Anthology (New York: Columbia University Press, 1951), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by William Lytton Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Commercial and Political Atlas: Representing, by Means of Stained Copper-Plate Charts, the Progress of the Commerce, Revenues, Expenditure, and Debts of England, During the Whole of the Eighteenth Century (third edition; printed by T. Burton, 1801), by William Playfair (page images here at Penn)

• Finance and Trade Under Edward III, ed. by George Unwin (HTML at British History Online)

• Letters Written by the English Residents in Japan, 1611-1623; With Other Documents on the English Trading Settlement in Japan in the Seventeenth Century (Tokyo: The Sankosha, 1900), ed. by Naojirō Murakami and Kengo Murakawa, contrib. by William Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Original Letters of the English Pilot, William Adams, Written From Japan Between A.D. 1611 and 1617: Reprinted From the Papers of the Hakluyt Society (Yokohama: "Japan Gazette" Office, 1896), by William Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Monopoly Trade and Economic Stagnation: Studies in the Foreign Trade of Iceland, 1602-1787 (c1983), by Gísli Gunnarsson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Monopoly Trade and Economic Stagnation: Studies in the Foreign Trade of Iceland, 1602-1787 (c1983), by Gísli Gunnarsson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1928), by Verner W. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)

• Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by David West Rudner (HTML at UC Press)

• The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1928), by Verner W. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)

• Letters Written by the English Residents in Japan, 1611-1623; With Other Documents on the English Trading Settlement in Japan in the Seventeenth Century (Tokyo: The Sankosha, 1900), ed. by Naojirō Murakami and Kengo Murakawa, contrib. by William Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Original Letters of the English Pilot, William Adams, Written From Japan Between A.D. 1611 and 1617: Reprinted From the Papers of the Hakluyt Society (Yokohama: "Japan Gazette" Office, 1896), by William Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, by Beshara Doumani (HTML at UC Press)

• Sugar, Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830-1885 (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2014), by G. R. Knight (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Das Rigische Schuldbuch (1286-1352) (in Latin and German; St. Petersburg: Commissionäre der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1872), ed. by Hermann Hildebrand
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Report on the Commerce of the Ports of New Russia, Moldavia and Wallachia, Made to the Russian Government, in 1835, in Pursuance of an Investigation, Undertaken by Order of Count Woronzow (London: E. Wilson, 1836), by I︠U︡. Gagemeĭster, trans. by T. F. Triebner
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press of Hawaii, c1985), by Kenneth R. Hall (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• 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 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)

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