Annals of commerce, manufactures, fisheries, and navigation
Subtitle: with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them. Containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries, from the earliest accounts to the meeting of the Union Parliament in January, 1801; and comprehending the most valuable part of the late Mr. Anderson's history of commerce with a large appendix.
By: By David Macpherson.
Contributors: Anderson, Adam, 1692?-1765.
Publisher: Nichols
Published: 1805
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Commerce -- History; Fisheries -- History; Navigation -- History; Great Britain -- Commerce -- History
Notes: For the first volume, up to the discovery of America, Macpherson is wholly responsible. In the second and part of the third volumes (1492-1760) he merely edits and alters Adam Anderson's History of commerce. The remainder of the work, bringing the history down to 1801, was compiled by Macpherson from official records.