Discourses on the Publick Revenues, and on the Trade of England.
in two parts........ /
Discourses on the Publick Revenues, and on the Trade of England.
which more immediately treat of the foreign traffick of the Kingdom......by the author of The Essay on Ways and Means......
by Charles Davenant
London, printed for James Knapton, 1698.
2 volumes. 8vo. pp[xvi] 280, 62, advert leaf. 3 folding tables. [xi] 434, 64. 1 double-page table.
some light browning and marking, but generally clean. damage to extreme outer edge of first three leaves of volume one.
City of New York Association of the Bar library stamp to volume one half-title, together with inked owner's name. volume one half-title trimmed at top edge.
contemporary ink notes to both title-pages.
in coarse canvas library bindings. volume one upper joint broken, but board still attached. Possibly suitable as rebinding copies.
a complete set of Davenant's important 17th century work on trade and economics. volume two contains discourses on the plantation trade and the East-India Trade.
volume one includes a separate work - 'A Discourse upon Improving the Revenue of the State of Athens', translated from the Greek of Xenophon.
Similarly, volume two includes a separate work - 'The Late Essay on the East-India Trade'
