LOT 18 The Undoubted Art of Thriving; Wherein is Shewed. I. That a Million L. Sterling Money... May be Raised for Propogating the Trade of the Nation... 2. How the Indian and African Company May Propogate their Trade... [and] May be Encouraged to Honour, Strength and Wealth of the Nation..., FIRST EDITION, Edinburgh, John Reid, 1700 DONALDSON (JAMES)
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[DONALDSON (JAMES)]
The Undoubted Art of Thriving; Wherein is Shewed. I. That a Million L. Sterling Money... May be Raised for Propogating [sic] the Trade of the Nation... 2. How the Indian and African Company May Propogate their Trade... [and] May be Encouraged to Honour, Strength and Wealth of the Nation..., FIRST EDITION, title within woodcut typographical border, nineteenth century morocco gilt, spine tooled in six compartments, g.e., slightly rubbed [ESTC R5321; Goldsmith 3629; Sabin 20589], 8vo, Edinburgh, John Reid, 1700
|First and only edition of a scarce work on economics in which the author proposed the expansion of trade by the Company of Scotland in Africa and the Indies, and champions the Darien Scheme. No copy traced on Rare Book Hub in the past thirty years.Provenance: James Maidment (1793-1879, antiquary), bookplate.
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