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• 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)

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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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 Growth of British Policy (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), by J. R. Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cambria Triumphans: or, Brittain in its Perfect Lustre, Shewing the Origen and Antiquity of That Illustrious Nation (2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for A. Crooke, 1661), by Percy Enderbie
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • 1810 reprint: page images at Wellcome Collection
• Critical and Historical Essays, by Thomas Macaulay, ed. by Alexander James Grieve
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
• The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of England, by Mary Platt Parmele (Gutenberg text)
• Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: English (v4 of a larger series; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1908), by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: English (Los Angeles: Angelus University, c1908), by Charles Morris (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The History of England, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James the Second, 1688 (Boston: Phillips Sampson and Co., 1856), by David Hume (page images at MOA)
• The Leading Facts of English History (revised edition, c1912), by D. H. Montgomery (Gutenberg text)
• Letters From Lady Jane Coke to Her Friend Mrs. Eyre at Derby, 1747-1758 (London: S. Sonnenschein, 1899), by Lady Jane Coke, ed. by Florence A. Monica Rathborne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Short History of England (London: Chatto and Windus, 1917), by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Stories From English History, by Alfred John Church
  • Part I (From Julius Caesar to the Black Prince): illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • Part II (From Richard II to Charles I): illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • Part III (From the Lord Protector to Victoria): illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
• The Story of the Empire (London: George Newnes, 1902), by Edward Salmon (PDF at djm.cc)
• Historical Antiquities, in Two Books: The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland; The Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire (London: Printed by W. L. for R. Clavell, 1673), ed. by Peter Leycester (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The History of England: A Study in Political Evolution, by A. F. Pollard (Gutenberg text)
• A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates (London: Macmillan and Co., 1871), by Charlotte M. Yonge (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Warfare in England (London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, c1912), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Discourse of Foreign War; With an Account of All the Taxations Upon This Kingdom, From the Conquest to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; Also a List of the Confederates from Henry I to the End of the Reign of the Said Queen, Shewing Which Have Prov'd the Most Beneficial to England (London: Printed for H. Mortlock, 1690), by Robert Cotton (multiple formats at Google)
• Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities (2 volumes; London: James Sangster and Co., ca. 1860), ed. by Charles Knight
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

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