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1764 · 55358 — E-08: A. Millar Et Al. Very Good. 1764. Hardcover. Leather. Folio 10-1/2 by 17 inches. A. Millar et al London. 1764. Two volumes. Xxxiv 500 pages; 434 pgs. With large folding hemispheric map of the world and two other maps. Bound in contemporary full brown calf leather with burgundy morocco spine labels raised bands. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. First edition of this important authoritative history of commerce with a focus on Britain's acquisition of "new American markets" as well as the greater consequences of "the very extraordinary actions of the year 1720" when the South Sea Bubble burst. Within this impressive two-volume work are extensive references to treaties parliamentary acts the substantive contributions of economic texts and thorough statistical accounts of currency population and wealth. "In the year preceding Anderson's death appeared his great and only work An Historical and Chronological Deduction. Coming down from the earliest times to the year 1762 Anderson's work is a monument of stupendous industry. Composed in the form of annals it is not merely a record of commercial progress and colonial enterprise but a history of the political industrial and social development of all civilised countries and especially of Great Britain and Ireland. Abstracts of all treaties acts of parliament and pamphlets in any way bearing on commerce or kindred matters are added together with statistical accounts of the national finances of prices currency and population. In the introduction to his work Anderson showed himself in advance of his time and exposed several of the fallacies of the mercantile system. He condemned industrial monopolies and advocated the naturalisation of foreign protestants and a uniformity of weights measures and coinage for all the nations of Christendom." E-08; Folio 13" - 23" tall . A. Millar, Et Al, hardcover