GEE, JOSHUA

Considerations sur le Commerce et la Navigation de la Grande-Bretagne. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois.

Geneve, Antoine Philibert, 1750.

8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and blind-tooled ornamentation spine. Ex-libris (Carl Juel, Danish statesman and owner of Valdemar's Castle) to verso of front board. Light wear to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. 24, 215 pp.

The Geneva-edition of the French translation of this interesting treatise which devotes a large part to the trade with American plantations and contains discussions of British trade with Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and New England. First published in 1729, the work was frequently reprinted throughout the eighteenth-century.

Order-nr.: 60647