An essay upon the probable methods of making a people gainers in the ballance of trade. : Treating of these heads, viz. Of the people of England. Of the land of England, and its product. Of our payments to the publick, and in what manner the ballance of trade may be thereby affected. That a country cannot increase in wealth and power but by private men doing their duty to the publick, and but by a steady course of honesty and wisdom, in such as are trusted with the administration of affairs. By the author of the Essay on ways and means.
Davenant, Charles,1656-1714.
London : Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard,
1699.
The author of the Essay on ways and means = Charles Davenant.
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
ESTC
Balance of trade