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• 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 Alexander 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)

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

• 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)

• 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; US access only)

• 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)

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• The Theory and Practice of the International Trade of the United States and England, and of the Trade of the United States and Canada (Chicago: D. B. Cooke and Co., 1858), by Patrick Barry (PDF at McMaster)

• Potential Benefits of an Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement: Key Issues and Options (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2018), ed. by Jane Drake-Brockman and Patrick A. Messerlin (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Money Answers All Things, by Jacob Vanderlint (text at McMaster)

• 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

• De Merchant Adventurers in de Nederlanden: Een Bijdrage tot de Geschiedenis van den Engelschen Handel met Nederland (in Dutch; 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1905), by C. te Lintum
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Economist (partial serial archives)

• The Privileges of an Englishman in the Kingdoms and Dominions of Portugal: Contain'd in the Treaty of Peace Concluded by Oliver Cromwell; and Various Laws, Decrees, &c. at Sundry Times, and on Divers Occasions, Made by the Kings of Portugal, in Favour of the English Nation (English and Portuguese in parallel; London: Printed for the translator, and sold at the Portugal coffee-house, 1736), contrib. by Great Britain and Portugal (page images at HathiTrust)

• China to Peru over the Andes: A Journey Through South America (London: S. Low, Marston, and co., ca. 1894), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent, contrib. by C. E. Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Turkey and its Resources: Its Municipal Organization and Free Trade; The State and Prospects of English Commerce in the East; The New Administration of Greece, Its Revenue and National Possessions (London: Saunders and Otley, 1833), by David Urquhart (page images at Google)

• Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations (14 volumes, covering 1704-1782; London: HMSO, 1920-1938), ed. by Great Britain Public Record Office (HTML at British History Online)

• Latvijas Ārejā Tirdznieciba un Tranzits (annual statistical summary of Latvian commerce, in Latvian and French; online volumes for 1920-1922; US access only), by Latvia (partial serial archives)

• 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

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

• De Merchant Adventurers in de Nederlanden: Een Bijdrage tot de Geschiedenis van den Engelschen Handel met Nederland (in Dutch; 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1905), by C. te Lintum
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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)

• German-Polish Disputes: Danzig, the Polish Corridor and East Prussia (Foreign Policy Reports v9 #9; 1933), by Shepard Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Privileges of an Englishman in the Kingdoms and Dominions of Portugal: Contain'd in the Treaty of Peace Concluded by Oliver Cromwell; and Various Laws, Decrees, &c. at Sundry Times, and on Divers Occasions, Made by the Kings of Portugal, in Favour of the English Nation (English and Portuguese in parallel; London: Printed for the translator, and sold at the Portugal coffee-house, 1736), contrib. by Great Britain and Portugal (page images at HathiTrust)

• People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2017), ed. by David Bates, Edoardo D'Angelo, and Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)
• After the Flood: The Early Post-Flood History of Europe (Chichester: New Wine Press, c1995), by Bill Cooper (illustrated HTML at creationism.org)
• The Story of Old Europe and Young America (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, c1922), by William H. Mace and Edwin P. Tanner, illust. by Homer Wayland Colby, B. F. Williamson, and Frank T. Merrill (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
• A General History of Europe, From the Origins of Civilization to the Present Time (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1921), by James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, and Emma Peters Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Introduction to the History of Western Europe (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1903), by James Harvey Robinson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Outlines of European History (2 volumes; Boston et al.: Ginn and Company, c1914-1918), by James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, and Charles A. Beard
  • Part I (Earliest Man, The Orient, Greece, and Rome; Europe to the Opening of 18th Century): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II (From the Seventeenth Century to the War of 1914; revised with supplementary chapter on the Great War, 1914-1918): multiple formats at archive.org
• A Short Sketch of European History: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Reformation (labeled "Part I", but no later parts known to exist; ca. 1920), by H. E. Marshall (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Early European History, by Hutton Webster (Gutenberg text)
• Europe and the Faith, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
• Europe, Its Past and Present Condition: Being a Comprehensive Manual of European Geography and History (Home Cyclopedia v8; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), by F. H. Ungewitter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• General History of Western Nations From 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D., I: Antiquity (the only 2 volumes published; London, Macmillan and Co., 1908), by Emil Reich
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Ideales Viejos e Ideales Nuevos; Significación Histórica del Movimiento Maximalista (in Spanish; ca. 1918), by José Ingenieros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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