Collecties

Aanwinsten 2011

November 2011

• Joannes DE COCK, Nieuwe lakenrekeninghe, de welk begint met den prys van 7. grooten, en eyndigt met dien van 60. grooten de elle [...] Hier zyn nog by-gevoegt twee tafels van reductie [...] (Wid. M. de Goesin : Ghent, s.a.) 219 p.
  • Work with prices for the textile industry : "...dat zekeren d'heer Donaes Vanden Bogaerde, voortyds koopman binnen de stad Brugge, ziende de groote moeyelykheyd in t'elkens te moeten uyt-cyfferen den prys der lakenen, aengezet is geworden om een boeksken in druk te geven, waer in met eenen oogslag zonder rekenen, den begeirden prys gevonden word" (preface). 18th c. ms ownership entry Carel Fran Vande Velde. Bookpl. Carlo de Poortere.
  • The Romatic Agony, Brussels

June 2011

• The BRITISH MERCHANT; or, Commerce preserv'd: in Answer to the Mercator, or Commerce retriev'd ... (London, Printed for A[bigail] Baldwin [for Ferd. Burleigh after Numb. 32]. [1713–1714]. 102 issues (1-28 are individual bi-weekly numbers; nos 29-103 are published in groups of three biweekly issues)
  • Biweekly economic periodical, which appeared 7 August 1713 – 30 July 1714, during the debates over the commercial portions (articles 8 and 9) of the Treaty of Utrecht. Edited by Charles King, who was the biggest contributor alongside Joshua Gee and Henry Martyn, it was written to counter the Mercator, largely by Defoe, which argued in favour of the Treaty.
  • Publication of The British Merchant continued only until the stated aim was achieved – Parliament voted down the disputed articles and that part of the Treaty collapsed. The Mercator ceased publication on 20 July. The British Merchant held on to crow about the 'Exit of the Mercator' and to deal with the 'Asiento' that granted the South Sea Company the right to provide slaves to the Spanish colonies. A selection of the contents was reprinted by King in a three volume 8vo. edition in 1721, which went through several reprints and 'enjoyed an authoritative status lasting until mid-century; the last edition was published in 1743.
  • Bound with this copy are nearly 90 pages of related contemporary manuscript material:
    1) 'Papers concerning the the Trade to Rusia in relation to Tobacco' in 1705, 21 pages, comprising transcriptions of petitions and reports by the Maryland and Virginia planters in connection with the crisis over the trade to Russia, Peter the Great having cancelled the contract in December 1704. The planters protested against the presence in Russia of British workers skilled in tobacco processing, for fear they would give away trade secrets to a country with ample local supply of the raw materials; Queen Anne duly ordered their return to England and the destruction of their machinery.
  • 2) Transcriptions of Parliamentary reports and an address relative to the 'Asiento' with Spain, 5-8 July 1714, 4½ pages. See above.
  • 3) 'Report of the Commissaries appointed by Her Majesty to Treat with those of France, & to Settle the Commerce of both Nations', 9 June 1714, 39 pages. A detailed report on the process of negotiation over Articles 8 and 9 of the Treaty of Utrecht. Whitworth, Murray and Martin formed the British party, D'Iberville, Annison and Fénelon the French. Included are copies in English and French of 14 relevant documents: powers of negotation, memorials, propositions, extracts from correspondence. The report is concluded with a transcript, in two columns, of the relevant Articles, with facing observations by the Commissioners.
  • 4) Transcriptions of several documents relating to the Recoinage of 1717, 23 pages, including Isaac Newton's reports to the Treasury of 21 September and 23 November 1717, and a three-page table of gold and silver bullion exported, by country, from 1711 to January 1717/8. Newton's report advised the fixing of gold relative to silver coin to a level conforming with that of much of Europe (21 shillings), to halt the sale of silver bullion abroad. In the event, however, silver was worth more as bullion than as coin, and as a result, silver continued to flow out of the country and gold in.
  • Quaritch, London
• Xavier HEUSCHLING, Essai sur la statistique generale de la Belgique composé sur les documents publics et particuliers... Avec carte et tableaux (Brussels, Etablissement Geographique, 1838) pp. xvi, 416; with a large folding coloured map of Belgium, one folding typographical table and a large folding engraved plate
  • First work published by Heuschling, his much-quoted and comprehensive statistics of Belgium published at the height of the industrial revolution, later revised for a second edition (1841) and a supplement (1844). It includes a list of the principal sources for the figures. The coloured map charts Belgium's region and administrative divisions, principal fortifications and railways; the typographical table shows the uses and productivity of land, the folding table at the end offers a chart of distances between Belgian cities. Devoted to the study of statistics since his first appointment at the Treasury, Heuschling also published some valued early statistical bibliographies, the Bibliographie historique de la statistique en Allemagne (1845) the Manuel de statistique ethnographique universelle, précédé d'une introduction théorique sur l'état de la science statistique (1847) and the Bibliographie historique de la statistique de France (1851).
  • Quaritch, London

March 2011

• Carl COURTIN, Der Praktische Kaufmann oder gemeinfasslicher Lehr-Cours der angewandten Handelswissenschaften. Dargestellt durch die fingirten, vom Leichtern zum Schwierigern übergehenden, in chronologischer Ordnung aufeinanderfolgenden, ein zusammenhänges Ganze bildenden Geschäft und vollständigen Bücher eines Handlungshauses, und Tag für Tag mit allen zu ihrer Verständlichkeit erforderlichen Erklärungen, Begriffen, Vergleichungen, Hinweisungen, Formularen, Calculationen etc. versehen ... . Erster [-Zweiter] Theil (Stuttgart, Verlag der J. B. Metzler'schen Buchhandlung, 1838) 2 parts in 1 vol.
  • Antiquariaat Hohmann, Stuttgart
• Johann Friedrich HEINZE, Allgemeiner kaufmännischer Briefsteller und Handlungs-Comptorist. Enthaltend alle Arten im kaufmännischen Leben vorkommender Briefe und Aufsätze, nach den besten und bewährtesten Mustern und Formularen; gründliche Belehrungen über die neuesten Handels-Verhältnisse der vorzüglichsten Handelsplätze Europens, in Ansehung der Geld- und Wechsel-Course, der Maaße und Gewichte und anderer, auf den kaufmännischen Verkehr Bezug habenden Gegenstände; ... . Dritte, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage (Quedlinburg und Leipzig, Verlag von Gottfr. Basse, 1828) viii, 456 p.
  • Antiquariaat Hohmann, Stuttgart
• Johann Friedrich MYCCS, Allzeit fertiger und Selbstlehrend Italienisch Deutscher Handels-Correspondent oder drey hundert auserlesene auf die neueste Art und Weise auch auf alle vorkommende Fälle eingerichtete Italienisch deutsche Kaufmanns-Briefe mit den gebräuchlichsten italienischen Wörtern und Redens-Arten auch besonders angehängten Wechsel-Briefen, Assignationen, Quittungen, Scheinen, Fracht-Briefen und Credit-Schreiben zum allgemeinen und unentbehrlichen Nutzen und Erleichterung ... (Frankfurth und Leipzig, Auf Kosten Joseph Ehren Ammermüllers, 1768) 384, 23 p.
  • Antiquariaat Hohmann, Stuttgart

February 2011

• Joseph Alexis Barthélemy COSTA, Marquis de Saint-Genis de Beauregard, Essai sur l'amélioration de l'agriculture dans les pays montueux, et en particulier dans la ci-devant Savoie; avec des recherches sur les principes et les moyens propres à augmenter la population, la vivification et le bien-être des Peuples (Paris, A.-J. Marchant, 1802) [ii], viii, [ii], 190, [8] p. with two typographical and three engraved plates.
  • Second edition, corrected and enlarged (first edition Chambery, M. F. Gorrin, 1774). Costa's physiocratic essay proposing soil treatment and rotations, among other improvements to farming conditions in the Alps, with special regard to Savoy. The first edition had also appeared in the Ephémérides Economiques of 1776.
  • Alexis Costa lived well off landed estates. However, upon his father's death in 1751 he learnt the serious extent of the family debts, and saving what land he could - 650 hectares - he settled there to restore his finances, which were aided by the rise in agricultural prices during the boom period of the 1750s. Costa had a sense of duty to improve the practicality of agriculture in Savoy, where the farming situation was impeded by harsh climate and terrain, mediocre farming tools and techniques, small-scale farms, emigration and depopulation. Encouraged by King Victor Amadeus III he founded, along with Dr. Daquin, the Société économique pour l'Agriculture, le Commerce et les Arts de Chambéry in 1771, which published this work but dissolved in 1780.
  • Quaritch, London

January 2011

• [William PLAYFAIR], Chronology of public events and remarkable occurences, within the last Fifty years; or, from 1770 to 1820. With a general Chronology, from the earliest Records to the Year 1770 (London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride Court, Bridge Street; sold by W. Sams, St. James’s Street, and all the booksellers, [1820]) various pp.
• with: [William PLAYFAIR], Chronology of public events and remarkable occurences, within the last Fifty years; or, from 1774 to 1824. With a general Chronology, from the earliest Records to the Year 1770 (London, G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1824) various pp.
  • First edition of this chronology with the coloured chart of economic data of Britain (denoting revenue, expenditure, public debt, bread price, and three per cent consols) by William Playfair, together with the posthumous – and last edition – of 1824, with his final additions, following his death in 1823.
    In the Explanation he observes that before the economic slump of 1816 'the Revenue and Expenditure were equal in time of Peace, but they are not so now' p. [8]. The chart was designed with enough space to be left for the years up to 1830; however, the 1824 issue is the latest edition we were able to trace. It is interesting to note the additions Playfair made to his chart, which are quite considerable from the first appearance in 1820.
  • Pickering & Chatto, London