Lex mercatoria rediviva, or, The merchant's directory
Subtitle: being a complete guide to all men in business, whether as traders, remitters, owners, freighters, captains, insurers, brokers, factors, supercargoes, agents. Containing an account of our mercantile companies, of our colonies and factories abroad, of our commercial treaties with foreign powers, of the duty of consuls, and of the laws concerning aliens, naturalization and denization : to which is added, a sketch of the present state of the commerce of the whole world, describing the manufacturers and products of each particular nation, with tables of the correspondence and agreement of their respective coins, weights, and measures, extracted from the works of the most celebrated British and foreign commercial writers. The whole equally calculated for the information and service of the merchant, lawyer, member of parliament, and private gentleman
By: by the late Wyndham Beawes, Esq., his Britannick majesty's consul at Seville and St. Lucar
Contributors: Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810
Edition: The fourth edition / considerably improved, enlarged, and altered to render it suitable to the present time, by Thomas Mortimer, Esq. formerly his majesty's vice consul at Ostend and author of several commerical treatises.
Publisher: Printed for J. Rivington and Sons, T. Longman, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Cadell, G. Robinson, J. Sewel, and R. Baldwin
Published: 1783
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 944
Subjects: Tables; Early works to 1800; Commercial law; Maritime law; Commerce; Money
Other titles: Lex mercatoria rediviva; Merchant's directory
Notes: Signatures: pi² a-b² B-11K⁴.

Includes index.

LC copy accompanied by manuscript note found laid in at p. 566: "Law of nations, etc." with 26 lines of handwritten text in ink, author unknown. Date mentioned in text: "22 May 1813".

ESTC T136426

NUC pre-1956 NB 0230798 (vol. 42, p. 28)