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Table of Contents
Introduction, by Jacob H. Hollander
The Preface
Of Trade and the Stock, or Wares of Trade
Of the Quantity and Quality of Wares
Of the Value and Price of Wares
Of Mony, Credit and Interest
Of the Use and Benefit of Trade
Of the Chief Causes that Promote Trade
Of the Chief Causes of the Decay of Trade in England, and Fall of the Rents of Land
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A Discourse of Trade

Barbon, Nicholas
(1640-1698)
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Translator/Editor
Jacob H. Hollander, ed.
First Pub. Date
1690
Publisher
Baltimore, MD: Lord Baltimore Press
Pub. Date
1905
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The text of this edition is in the public domain.
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TRADE is the Making, and Selling of one sort of Goods for another; The making is called Handy-Craft Trade, and the maker an Artificer; The Selling is called Merchandizing, and the Seller a Merchant: The Artificer is called by several Names from the sort of Goods he makes. As a Clothier, Silk-weaver, Shoo-maker, or Hatter, &c. from Making of Cloth, Silk, Shooes, or Hats; And the Merchant is distinguished by the Names of the Countrey he deals to, and is called, Dutch, French, Spanish or Turkey Merchant. [From the text]

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