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• Great Britain -- Commerce -- History
• Great Britain -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800
• Great Britain -- History -- Early works to 1800
• Commerce -- History -- Early works to 1800

• Anderson's Historical and chronological deduction of the origin of commerce, from the earliest accounts : containing an history of the great commercial interests of the British empire; to which is prefixed, an introduction, exhibiting a view of the ancient and modern state of Europe; of the importance of our colonies; and of the commerce, shipping, manufactures, fisheries, &c. of Great-Britain and Ireland; and their influence on the landed interest: with an appendix, containing the modern politico-commercial geography of the several countries of Europe (s.n.], 1790), by Adam Anderson and William Combe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Short account of the late application to Parliament made by the merchants of London upon the neglect of their trade : with the substance of the evidence thereupon (Printed for T. Cooper, 1742), by Thomas Cooper and Richard Glover (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Germans in England, 1066-1598 ("The National Review" Office, 1915), by Ian Duncan Colvin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of British expansion (Macmillan and co., limited, 1922), by James A. Williamson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anglo-Dutch rivalry during the first half of the seventeenth century, being the Ford lectures delivered at Oxford in 1910 (Clarendon Press, 1911), by George Edmundson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The imperial commonwealth; a survey of commercial, industrial, and social history from the Tudor period to recent times (Cassell and company, ltd., 1921), by Arthur Pierre Poley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An introduction to English economic history and theory ... (Longmans, Green & co., 1892), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to English economic history and theory (G.P. Putnam's sons;, 1920), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The libelle of Englyshe polycye, a poem on the use of sea-power, 1436 (Clarendon Press, 1926), by George F. Warner and Adam de Moleyns (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cely papers: selections from the correspondence and memoranda of the Cely family, merchants of the staple, A.D. 1475-1488 (Longmans, Green, and co., 1900), by Henry Elliot Malden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The acts and ordinances of the Eastland company; edited for the Royal historical society, from the original muniments of the Gild of merchant adventurers of York (Royal historical society, 1906), by Eastland Company and Maud Sellers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the wine trade in England. (Wyman & sons, ltd., 1906), by André Louis Simon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Smuggling days and smuggling ways. (Cassell & company, limited, 1892), by Henry N. Shore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The king's customs (J. Murray, 1908), by Henry Atton and Henry Hurst Holland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The smugglers; picturesque chapters in the history of contraband (C. Palmer, 1923), by Henry Noel Shore Teignmouth and Charles George Harper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• King's cutters and smugglers, 1700-1855. (J. B. Lippincott company;, 1912), by E. Keble Chatterton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fortunes made in business: a series of original sketches, biographical and anecdotic, from the recent history of industry and commerce. (S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of English commerce and industry. (E. Arnold, 1900), by L. L. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of commerce, manufactures, fisheries, and navigation, with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them. Containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries, from the earliest accounts to the meeting of the Union Parliament in January, 1801; and comprehending the most valuable part of the late Mr. Anderson's history of commerce with a large appendix. (Nichols, 1805), by David Macpherson and Adam Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early chartered companies, A.D. 1296-1858 (E. Arnold, 1896), by George Cawston and A. H. Keane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Englische handelspolitik gegen ende des mittelalters, mit besonderer berücksichtigung des zeitalters der beiden ersten Tudors Heinrich VII. und Heinrich VIII (Duncker & Humblot, 1881), by Georg von Schanz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The libell of Englishe policye, 1436 (S. Hirzel, 1878), by Reinhold Pauli and Wilhelm Adolf Boguslaw Hertzberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sea traders (Cassell and company, 1921), by Archibald Hurd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The merchant adventurers of England; their laws and ordinances with other documents. W. E. Lingelbach ... ([sold by Longmans, Green $co., New York,], 1902), by William E. Lingelbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alien merchants in England, 1350 to 1377, their legal and economic position (Mediaeval Academy of America, 1931), by Alice Beardwood and Carnegie Corporation of New York (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies in the history of English commerce in the Tudor period. I. The organization and early history of the Muscovy company, by Armand J. Gerson, PH.D. II. English trading expeditions into Asia under the authority of the Muscovy company (1557-1581) by Earnest V. Vaughn, PH.D. III. English trade in the Baltic during the reign of Elizabeth (University of Pennsylvania;, 1912), by Neva Ruth Deardorff, Earnest Vancourt Vaughn, and Armand J. Gerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• English trade and finance chiefly in the seventeenth century (Methuen & Co., 1892), by W. A. S. Hewins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hamburg und England im zeitalter der Königin Elisabeth. (G. Fischer, 1896), by Richard Ehrenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters received by the East India company from its servants in the East. (S. Low, Marston & company (limited), 1896), by East India Company, William Foster, and Frederick Charles Danvers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An historical account of the British trade over the Caspian Sea: with a journal of travels from London through Russia into Persia; and back again through Russia, Germany and Holland. To which are added, The revolutions of Persia during the present century, with the particular history of the great usurper Nadir Kouli. (Sold by Mr. Dodsley [etc.], 1753), by Jonas Hanway and Shah of Iran Nādir Shāh (page images at HathiTrust)
• An estimate of the comparative strength of Great Britain, during the present and four preceding reigns : and of the losses of her trade from every war since the revolution /. (J. Stockdale, 1794), by George Chalmers (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical view of the domestic economy of Great Britain, and Ireland, from the earliest to the present times. (A. Constable and company; [etc., etc.], 1812), by George Chalmers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The growth of English industry and commerce during the early and middle ages. (At the University press, 1890), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commerce and industry : a historical review of the economic conditions of the British Empire, 1815-1914. (Constable and company, ltd., 1919), by William Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• The growth of English industry and commerce during the early and middle ages. (At the University press, 1896), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The growth of English industry and commerce in modern times. (University press, 1907), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The industrial and commercial history of England. Lectures delivered to the University of Oxford. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1892), by James E. Thorold Rogers and Arthur George Liddon Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The king's customs; an account of maritime revenue & contraband traffic in England. Scotland, and Ireland, from the earliest times to the year 1800 (E.P. Dutton & co., 1908), by Henry Atton, Frederick Sydney Parry, and Henry Hurst Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise of commerce (Published for the Facsimile text society by Columbia university press, 1931), by John Wheeler and George Burton Hotchkiss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The York mercers and Merchant Adventurers, 1356-1917. (Pub. for the Society by Andrews & Co., 1918), by Merchant Adventurers of York and Maud Sellers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romance of commerce (J. Lane, ltd., 1923), by Harry Gordon Selfridge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The beginnings of English overseas enterprise; a prelude to the empire (Clarendon Press, 1917), by Charles Prestwood Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• English merchants; memoirs in illustration of the progress of British commerce (Chatto and Windus, 1886), by H. R. Fox Bourne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Middlemen in English business, particularly between 1660 and 1760, by Ray Bert Westerfield ... (Yale University Press, 1915), by Ray Bert Westerfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical and chronological deduction of the origin of commerce, from the earliest accounts. Containing an history of the great commercial interests of the British Empire. To which is prefixed an introduction, exhibiting a view of the ancient and modern state of Europe; of the importance of our colonies; and of the commerce, shipping, manufactures, fisheries, &c., of Great-Britain and Ireland; and their influence on the landed interest. With an appendix, containing the modern politico-commercial geography of the several countries of Europe. (Printed for J. White [etc.], 1801), by Adam Anderson and William Combe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Sprache des Handels in Altengland. Wirtschafts und kulturgeschichtliche Beiträge zur englischen Wortforschung ... Wissenschaftliche Beilage zum zehnten Jahresbericht der städtischen Handelsakademie (Handelshochschule) (Honegger'sche Buchdrukkerei, 1909), by Bernhard Fehr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The growth of English industry and commerce during the early and middle ages (The University Press, 1910), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The growth of English industry and commerce... (At the University press, 1921), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la réforme commerciale en Angleterre : avec des annexes étendues sur la législation de douane et de navigation dans le même pays (Capelle, 1855), by Henri Richelot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The growth of English industry and commerce (At the University Press, 1882), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of colonisation, being the story of the economic development of the British Empire (A. Melrose, 1923), by Arnold Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of commerce (John Lane;, 1918), by H. Gordon Selfridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The growth of English industry and commerce (The University Press, 1890), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of commerce (Sir I. Pitman & sons, ltd., 1926), by Thomas George Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An abstract of the evidence lately taken in the House of Commons, against the orders in Council : being a summary of the facts there proved : respecting the present state of the commerce and manufacturers of the country. (J. M'Creery, 1812), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)
• English merchants : memoirs in illustration of the progress of British commerce (R. Bentley, 1866), by H. R. Fox Bourne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of British trade and commerce : an historical account of Britain's growth and greatness from the industrial and commercial aspect (S. Low, Marston, 1927), by Harry Court and L. Court (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A comparative view of the industrial situation of Great Britain, from 1775 to the present time. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1832), by Alexander Mundell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A digest of British economic history (J. Murray, 1921), by F. H. M. Ralph and W. J. N. Griffith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• England's attainment of commercial supremacy. (E. Stock, 1897), by H. Tipper (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to English economic history and theory (G. P. Putnam's sons:, 1894), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the causes and consequences of the Orders in Council; and an examination of the conduct of Great Britain towards the neutral commerce of America. (Printed for J.M. Richardson [by Mercier and Co.], 1808), by Alexander Baring (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to English economic history and theory ... (Putnam;, 1910), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An introduction to English economic history and theory (Longman's, Green, 1894), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of British commerce, from the earlist times. (C. Knight & co., 1844), by George L. Craik (page images at HathiTrust)
• The growth of English industry and commerce ... (The University Press, 1917), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The industrial and commercial history of England (Lectures delivered to the University of Oxford) by the late James E. Thorold Rogers ... (T.F. Unwin, 1898), by James E. Thorold Rogers and Arthur George Liddon Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la réforme commerciale en Angleterre. Avec des annexes étendues sur la législation de douane et de navigation dans le même pays (Capelle, 1853), by Henri Ange Jules François Richelot (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new discourse of trade ... (T. Sowle, 1698), by Josiah Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• The industrial and commercial history of England : lectures delivered to the University of Oxford (T. Fisher Unwin, 1892), by James E. Thorold Rogers and Arthur G. L. Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A General treatise of naval trade and commerce, as founded on the laws and statutes of this realm : in which those relating to His Majesty's customs, merchants, masters of ships, mariners, letters of marque, privateers, prizes, convoys, cruizers, &c. are particularly considered and treated with care, under all the necessary heads, from the earliest time down to the present ... : in two volumes. (Printed by Henry Lintot ... for J. Brotherton, J. Walthoe, S. Birt, T. Osborn [and 12 others, 1753) (page images at HathiTrust)
• First-[third report[s] from the Select Committee... ([London], 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical account of the British trade over the Caspian Sea: with the author's journal of travels from England through Russia into Persia: and back through Russia, Germany and Holland. To which are added, the revolutions of Persia during the present century, with the particular history of the great usurper Nadir Kouli ... (T. Osborne [etc.], 1762), by Jonas Hanway and Shah of Iran Nādir Shāh (page images at HathiTrust)
• English merchants: (London, 1886), by H. R. Fox Bourne (page images at HathiTrust)
• An estimate of the comparative strength of Great-Britain; and of the losses of her trade from every war since the revolution (J. Stockdale, 1804), by George Chalmers (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to English economic history and theory (Rivingtons, 1888), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical and chronological deduction of the origin of commerce, from the earliest accounts. Containing an history of the great commercial interests of the British Empire. To which is prefixed an introduction, exhibiting a view of the ancient and modern state of Europe; of the importance of our colonies; and of the commerce, shipping, manufactures, fisheries, &c., of Great-Britain and Ireland; and their influence on the landed interest. With an appendix, containing the modern politico-commercial geography of the several countries of Europe. Carefully rev., cor. and continued to the present time ... (Printed by J. Walter, 1787), by Adam Anderson and William Combe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The growth of English industry and commerce. (University Press, 1905), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The growth of English industry and commerce. (At the University press, 1890), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to English economic history and theory (Longmans, Green and Co., 1919), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The origins of the South Sea Company. (Academy of Political Science, 1929), by William Thomas Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The merchant adventurers of England, their laws and ordinances with other documents. (Sold by Longmans, Green & co., New York], 1902), by William E. Lingelbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Smuggling days and smuggling ways; or, The story of a lost art. Containing some chapters from the unwritten history of Cornwall and other counties, together with an account of the rise and development of the coastguard. (Cassell & company, limited, 1892), by Henry Noel Shore Teignmouth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The growth of English industry and commerce during the early and Middle Ages. (University Press, 1912), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Entwicklung der Industrie und des Handels Englands ; Altertum und Mittelalter (M. Niemeyer, 1912), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English trade and finance chiefly in the seventeenth century (Methuen & company, 1892), by William Albert Samuel Hewins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The industrial and commercial history of England. (T.F. Unwin, 1892), by James E. Thorold Rogers and Arthur George Liddon Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• An estimate of the comparative strength of Great-Britain, during the present and four preceding reigns : and of the losses of her trade from every war since the revolution. (J. Stockdale, 1794), by George Chalmers (page images at HathiTrust)
• An estimate of the comparative strength of Britain during the present and four preceding reigns; and of the losses of her trade from every war since the revolution. (Printed for C. Dilly and J. Bowen, 1782), by George Chalmers and Matthew Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of British commerce and of the economic progress of the British nation, 1763-1878. (J. Murray, 1880), by Leone Levi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wine trade of England, past and present : a lecture delivered at Vintners' Hall, 20th November 1911 (Wyman & Sons, 1911), by André Louis Simon and Wine Trade Club (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fortunes made in business : life struggles of successful people. (Amalgamated Press, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A concise history of the present state of the commerce of Great Britain (W. Flint, 1805), by Carl Reinhard and J. Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fortunes made in business : a series of original sketches, biographical and anecdotic, from the recent history of industry and commerce (Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1891), by James Hogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• English economic history and theory (Longmans, Green and co., 1906), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The growth of English industry and commerce (The University Press, 1922), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The industrial revolution : being the parts entitled Parliamentary Colbertism and Laissez faire, reprinted from The growth of English industry and commerce in modern times (Cambridge University Press, 1922), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to English economic history and theory. (Longmans, Green, & Co., 1893), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The beginnings of English overseas enterprise a prelude to the empire (Clarendon Press ;, 1917), by C. P. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Imperial preferential trade from a Canadian point of view (Morang, 1904), by Adam Shortt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studier i engelsk og tysk handels historie : en undersøgelse af kommissionshandelens praksis og theori i engelsk og tysk handelsliv 1350-1850 (Gyldendal, 1907), by Erik Arup (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The growth of English industry and commerce (At the University Press, 1890), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Finance and trade under Edward III. (Longmans, Green, 1918), by George Unwin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essai sur le commerce et son organisation en France et en Angleterre (Librairie Guillaumin, 1891), by Gustave François (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to English economic history and theory : the Middle Ages (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust)
• English merchants memoirs in illustration of the progress of British commerce. (Chatto, 1898), by H. R. Fox Bourne (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to English economic history and theory (Longmans, Green, 1901), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chamberlains Handelspolitik. (G. Fischer, 1905), by Marie Schwab (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• List of treaties of commerce and navigation between Great Britain and foreign powers. Containing most-favored-nation clauses; stating the period when terminable and showing whether they apply to the British colonies. (Maclean, Roger & Co., 1880), by Great Britain Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to English economic history and theory (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1888), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English economic history and theory. (G.P. Putnam, 1906), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The commercial relations of England and Portugal (G. Routledge & sons, limited;, 1907), by Violet Mary Shillington and A. Beatrice Wallis Chapman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Smuggling days and smuggling ways. (Cassell & company, limited, 1892), by Henry Noel Shore Teignmouth (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to English economic history and theory (G.P. Putnam's Sons ;, 1903), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voyages dans la Grande-Bretagne ... (Bachelier, 1824), by Charles Dupin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A comparative view of the industrial situation of Great Britain. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman [etc.], 1832), by Alexander Mundell (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to English economic history and theory. (Longmans, 1913), by W. J. Ashley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Remarks upon the history of the landed and commercial policy of England, from thf [!] invasion of the Romans to the accession of James the First ... (Printed for E. Brooke, 1785), by Joseph Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The growth of English industry and commerce. (University Press, 1896), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Finance and trade under Edward III (A. M. Kelley, 1962), by George Unwin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The growth of English industry and commerce during the early and Middle Ages (University Press, 1927), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The growth of English industry and commerce : in modern times (University Press, 1925), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anglo-Dutch rivalry during the first half of the seventeenth century (Clarendon Press, 1979), by George Edmundson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An estimate of the comparative strength of Great-Britain : and of the losses of her trade from every war since the revolution : with an introduction of previous history (J. Stockdale, 1802), by George Chalmers and George King (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse about trade wherein the reduction of interest in money to 4 β. per centum, is recommended : methods for the employment and maintenance of the poor are proposed : several weighty points relating t (Printed by A. Sowle ..., 1690), by Josiah Child and Thomas Culpeper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The industrial and commercial history of England (Lectures to the University of Oxford) (T.F. Unwin, 1909), by James E. Thorold Rogers and Arthur George Liddon Rogers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romance of commerce (Dodd, Mead and Co., 1923), by H. Gordon Selfridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The growth of English industry and commerce (University Press, 1925), by W. Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A discourse about trade wherein the reduction of interest in money to 4 l. per centum, is recommended : methods for the employment and maintenance of the poor are proposed : several weighty points relating to companies of merchants, the act of navigation, naturalization of strangers, our woollen manufactures, the ballance of trade, and the nature of plantations, and their consequences in relation to the kingdom are seriously discussed : and some arguments for erecting a court of merchants for determining controversies, relating to maritime affairs, and for a law for transferrance of bills of debts, are humbly offered. ([London] : Printed by A. Sowle ..., 1690), by Josiah Child and Thomas Culpeper (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A new discourse of trade wherein is recommended several weighty points relating to companies of merchants : the act of navigation, naturalization of strangers, and our woollen manufactures, the balance of trade, and the nature of plantations, and their consequences in relation to the kingdom, are seriously discussed and some proposals for erecting a court of merchants for determining controversies, relating to maritime affairs, and for a law for transferrance of bills of depts, are humbly offered / by Josiah Child. (London : Printed, and sold by John Everingham ..., 1693), by Josiah Child and Thomas Culpeper (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Clothiers reasons for establishing the Company of Merchant Adventurers of England ([London : s.n., 169-?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter to a friend, concerning a late pamphlet, entituled, Angliæ tutamen, or, The safety of England being an account of the banks, lotteries, mines, divings, drawings, liftings, and other engines, and many pernicious projects now on foot, tending to the destruction of trade and commerce, and the impoverishing this realm : with reflections thereupon, of great import to all sorts of people. (London : [s.n.], 1696) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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