MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aHF1005$b.B4 1752
100 1 $aBeawes, Wyndham.
245 10 $aLex mercatoria rediviva, or, The merchant's directory :$bbeing 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 /$cby Wyndham Beawes, merchant.
246 30 $aLex mercatoria rediviva
246 30 $aMerchant's directory
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for the author, by J. Moore, in Bartholomew Lane, and sold by Edmund Comyns, at the South Gate of the Royal-Exchange,$cM.DCC.LII [1752].
300 $axvi, 600, 605-922 (i.e. 918), [20] p. ;$c36 cm. (fol.)
500 $a"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.
500 $aSignatures: pi² a-b² A-10Z² 11A²(-11A2) "[a]-[e]"². Gathering Ll also signed Kk.
510 4 $aESTC$cT118418
510 4 $aNUC pre-1956$cNB 0230791 (vol. 42, p. 27)
500 $aIncludes list of subscribers (pages xiii-xvi) and an index. Errata: on the verso of the final leaf.
500 $aLC copy rebound. Initial leaf mended with no loss of text. Has inscription on t.p.: "bot. of Battelle in Boston, 1785".$5DLC
650 0 $aCommerce$vEarly works to 1800.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xCommerce$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aCommercial law$zGreat Britain$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aMaritime law$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aMoney$vTables$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aWeights and measures.
700 1 $aSavary des Brûlons, Jacques,$d1657-1716.
700 1 $aBattelle, Ebenezer,$d1754-1818,$eassociated name.$5DLC
710 2 $aPre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC
752 $aEngland$dLondon.