The universal dictionary of trade and commerce
Subtitle: with large additions and improvements, adapting the same to the present state of British affairs in America, since the last treaty of peace made in the year 1763. With great variety of new remarks and illustrations incorporated throughout the whole: together with everything essential that is contained in Savary's Dictionary; also, all the material laws of trade and navigation relating to these kingdoms, and the customs and usages to which all traders are subject
By: by Malachy Postlethwayt, Esq
Contributors: Savary des Brûlons, Jacques, 1657-1716; Savary, Philémon-Louis, 1654-1727; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. ; Boston Public Library)  John Adams Library
Edition: The fourth addition.
Publisher: Printed for W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington ...
Published: 1774
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Commerce; Colonies; Dictionaries; Commercial law
Notes: Engraved frontispiece on verso facing t.p.

T.p. printed in red and black.

Includes index.

TItle vinette.

Two preliminary discourses on British commerce and commercial union between Great Britain and British America: v. 1, p. x1-1xvii.

Translation of: Dictionnaire universel de commerce, by Jacques Savary des Brûlons.

The original work was completed by the author's elder brother, Abbé Philémon-Louis Savary.

John Adams Library inscribed on first leaf, v. 1: "The United States of America."

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library.

Printer's device on title page.

Higgs, H. Bibl. of economics, 5885

ESTC, T147505

Also available on microfilm. New Haven, CT : Research Publications, [1976]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 11096).

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.

John Adams Library copy has original spine, v. 1-2, removed and stored separately (Mss Adams 436).