A new and complete dictionary of trade and commerce - containing a distinct explanation of the general principles of commerce; an accurate definition of its terms a particular description of the (14576526949)

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Title: A new and complete dictionary of trade and commerce : containing a distinct explanation of the general principles of commerce; an accurate definition of its terms ... a particular description of the different productions of art and nature, which are the basis and support of commerce ... foreign commerce ...
Year: 1766 (1760s)
Authors: Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810 Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL Boston Public Library) John Adams Library BRL
Subjects: Commerce Industries Commercial law
Publisher: London : Printed for the author and sold by S. Crowder ...
Contributing Library: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
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h, and has raifed it to the degree of power it atprefent poffeffes. The filks and organzines, which the Zuricker: buyyearly in the Trentin, Italy, and Piedmont, to twift orthrow, employ a great many people; and the fale which-they afterwards have for them in England, France, Hol-land, and elfewhere, is very confiderable; they alfo em-ploy great quantities of filk in their own manufactures,wroughr feparately in feveral (tuffs, handkerchiefs, crapes,&c. mixt with worded, cotton, thread or ferret : largeparcels of cotton are alfo fpun here, for the aforefaid fa-brics; cotton linen is made for printing, as are (lockings,and handkerchiefs of the fame materials, the fined: beingwrought into muffins ; and towards the end of the laltcentury, the art of drawing gold and filver wire, was in-troduced here. ZURZACH, in Switzerland, is rendered noted for itstwo fairs held here at Pentecoft and St. Verena, (at th_-end of Auguft) which attraif a great number of merchan:;from divcrfe countries. N
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