Lex mercatoria rediviva, or, The merchant's directory
Subtitle: being a compleat guide to all men in business, whether as traders, remitters, owners, freighters, captains, insurers, brokers, factors, supercargoes, agents, containing an account of our trading companies and colonies, with their establishments, and an abstract of their charters, the duty of consuls, and the laws subsisting about aliens, naturalization and denization : To which is added a state of the present general traffick of the whole world, describing the manufactures and products of each particular nation, and tables of the correspondence and agreement of the European coins, weights, and measures, with the addition of all others that are known : extracted from the best writers both at home and abroad, more especially from those justly celebrated ones of Messieurs Savary, improved and corrected by the author's own observations, during his long continuance in trade. The whole calculated for the use and service of the merchant, lawyer, senator, and gentleman
By: by Wyndham Beawes, merchant
Contributors: Savary des Brûlons, Jacques, 1657-1716; Battelle, Ebenezer, 1754-1818, associated name; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for the author, by J. Moore, in Bartholomew Lane, and sold by Edmund Comyns, at the South Gate of the Royal-Exchange
Published: 1752
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 922
Subjects: Tables; Early works to 1800; Commercial law; Maritime law; Commerce; Money; Weights and measures
Other titles: Lex mercatoria rediviva; Merchant's directory
Notes: "Pages 601-604 are omitted from the pagination and some text appears to be missing, athough the register is continuous. Pages [i]-[ii] form an imprimatur leaf."--Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: pi² a-b² A-10Z² 11A²(-11A2) "[a]-[e]"². Gathering Ll also signed Kk.

Includes list of subscribers (pages xiii-xvi) and an index. Errata: on the verso of the final leaf.

LC copy rebound. Initial leaf mended with no loss of text. Has inscription on t.p.: "bot. of Battelle in Boston, 1785".

ESTC T118418

NUC pre-1956 NB 0230791 (vol. 42, p. 27)