moine lespine jacques long isaac (1 Ergebnisse)

8vo. 2 vols. (16), 891, (19) pp. (4), 784, (18) pp. Titles printed in red and black. With engraved frontispiece and 3 folding tables in vol. 1. Late 19th c. half cloth over marbled boards with handwritten title to spines. Eighth edition, an unchanged reprint of the 1753 seventh edition. A famous handbook for merchants, the most widely used work of its kind in 18th century Holland. Includes detailed information on all subjects of interest to merchants: the Amsterdam stock exchange, bill-broking, pawnbroking, the corn trade, sales by auction, drapery, weights, measures and coins, excises, insurance, the East and West India Company, the trade with Moscow, the Scandinavian countries, German towns, Switzerland, Flanders, England, France, Spain, the Spanish West Indies, Portugal, Italy, etc. The first edition of this work, a slim volume of a mere 89 pages, was published in 1694 by Jacques le Moine de l'Espine, a French protestant refugee who established in Amsterdam around 1679 as a merchant and print dealer. A great number of ever-expanding editions followed, edited by Isaac le Long after the death of the original author and from 1727 onwards augmented by a second volume. The final edition, which ran to four volumes, appeared in 1801/02. - Title of second volume stained, corner of title and table of contents repaired not affecting text. - Jansen p. 226.