A select collection of scarce and valuable tracts on commerce
Subtitle: from the originals of Evelyn, Defoe, Richardson, Tucker, Temple, and others : with a preface, notes and index
Contributors: Overstone, Samuel Jones Loyd, Baron, 1796-1883, donor; Commercial Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1859
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 623
Subjects: Commerce; Free trade
Other titles: Commercial pamphlets.
Notes: "One hundred and fifty copies printed"--T.p. verso.

With reproduction of original title pages.

"This volume has been printed by Lord Overstone for distribution among his friends: it has been edited by J. R. McCulloch, Esq."--Note facing t.p.

LC copy has inscription on front fly-leaf: "For the Library of Congress, Washington. With Lord Overstone's compliments".
Table of contents: title: Observations touching trade and commerce with the Hollander, and other nations, presented to King James / by Sir Walter Raleigh; title: Navigation and commerce, their original and progress / by J. Evelyn; title: Extracts from a plan of the English commerce, being a compleat prospect of the trade of this nation, as well the home trade as the foreign. 2nd ed.; title: An essay on the causes of the decline of the foreign trade, consequently of the value of the lands of Britain, and on the means to restore both. 2nd ed., with additions; title: A brief essay on the advantages and disadvantages which respectively attend France and Great Britain, with regard to trade / by Josiah Tucker. 3rd ed. corrected, with additions; title: Proposals made by His late Highness the Prince of Orange, to their High Mightinesses the States-General, and to the States of Holland and West Friezland, for redressing and amending the trade of the Republic; title: A vindication of commerce and the arts / by I. B.; title: New and old principles of trade compared, or, a Treatise on the principles of commerce between nations.