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• 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

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

• An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of Their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures (London: Printed for C. Rivington, 1729), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
• Money Answers All Things, by Jacob Vanderlint (text at McMaster)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo (London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1797), by Bryan Edwards (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• 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