[Rarebooks] fa: Davenant's 1698 DISCOURSES ON THE PUBLICK REVENUES - Foreign Trade, East India Co., America, etc.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

On eBay, ending Sunday, Sept. 21, along with a number of other 18th- 
century titles:

[Charles Davenant:] Discourses on the Publick Revenues, and on the  
Trade of England. Which more immediately Treat of the Foreign Traffick  
of this Kingdom... Part II. To which is added, The late Essay on the  
East-India Trade. By the same Hand. London: Printed for James Knapton,  
at the Crown in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1698. FIRST EDITION...

The second part (complete in itself) of Davenant's monumental two-part  
work, both parts published in the same year. While Part I dealt  
primarily with "political arithmetick," Part II focuses on the  
somewhat more lively subject of foreign trade and consists of: "four  
Discourses... viz. (I.) That Foreign Trade is beneficial to England  
and (II.) On the protection and Care of Trade, (III.) On the  
Plantation Trade, (IV.) On the East-India Trade; to which is added the  
late Essay on the East-India Trade." The last-mentioned, first  
published a year earlier, is Davenant's famous essay opposing the  
protection of English textiles from Indian competition. The essay "On  
the Plantation Trade" contains a great deal of material on America and  
the West Indies...

Pictures and more details can be found at the URL below or by  
searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Many thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.