An essay on insurances
Subtitle: explaining the nature of the various kinds of insurance practised by the different commercial states of Europe, and shewing their consistency or inconsistency with equity and the public good : illustrated by real and extraordinary cases ... to which are annexed, some brief hints to merchants and insurers concerning the risks to which navigation is exposed in time of war ...
By: by Nicolas Magens ...
Contributors: Great Britain.; Great Britain.
Publisher: Printed by J. Haberkorn and sold by W. Baker
Published: 1755
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Insurance, Marine -- Early works to 1800; Insurance law -- Early works to 1800; Insurance, Marine -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800; Insurance law -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- Commercial treaties -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Subtitle of v. 2 reads: "Being a collection of all the foreign ordinances of insurances and forms of policies, translated into English ... all the English acts of Parliament relating to insurances ... together with a summary of all the treaties of commerce subsisting between England and foreign powers, and some mercantile reflections thereon."
Vol. 1: [2], vi, xviii, 562 p.; v. 2: vi, 714 p.
LC copy in library binding.