Product details

Art.No:

79566

Author / Artist:

Postlethwayt, Malachy

Title:

Subtitles / Reproduction:

[Reprint]

Keyword:

Wirtschaft - allgemein

Binding / Picture Size:

Kart. m. Präg.

Publisher:

Augustus M. Kelley

Place of publishing:

New York

Year of publication:

1971

Book Details / Size:

2° (44 x 26,5 cm), 7 S. neues Vorwort, LXVII, o. P. (zus. ca. 1000 Bl.), zus. 24 lose Faltkarten

Condition:

Ecken etw. bestossen, jew. Stempel a. Schmutztitel, Schnitte min. unfrisch, Kopf von Bd. 1 min. gedrückt, sonst tadellos.

Description:

EA dieses Reprints der Ausgabe London 1774. - «Malachy Postlethwayt (1707? – 1767) was a British commercial expert famous for his publication of the commercial dictionary titled The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce in 1757. The dictionary was a translation and adaptation of the Dictionnaire universel du commerce of the French Inspector General of the Manufactures for the King, Jacques Savary des Brûlons. Postlethwayt wrote several works on the benefits to the British economy from the African slave trade to the colonies in North America. [...] Postlethwayt spent 20 years preparing The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, London, 1751 (3rd edit. London, 1766; 4th edit. London, 1774), a translation, with large additions, from the French work of Jacques Savary des Bruslons. Postlethwayt collected information, freely plagiarising other writers, but presented his results haphazardly» (Wikipedia).