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WHEELER (JOHN) A Treatise of Commerce Wherein Are Shewed the Commodies Arising by a Wel Ordered, and Ruled Trade, such as that of the Societe of Merchantes Adventurers is provided to bee, written principallie for the better information of those who doubt of the necessarienes of the said societe in the State of the Realme of Englande, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, Middelburg, Richard Schilders, 1601
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WHEELER (JOHN)
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A good copy of the very rare first edition, with a 10-line presentation inscription from the author to Leonard Halliday (died 1612), a fellow Merchant Adventurer, knighted in 1603 and made Mayor of London in 1605. John Wheeler (died 1617) was the Secretary of the Company of Merchant Adventurers. Dedicated to Robert Cecil, the treatise was written in response to attacks on the Company, and its supposed monopolistic practices. Written, and first printed in Middelburg in Zeeland, a second edition was printed in London a month later.
Provenance: Charles Montagu, 3rd Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), armorial bookplate. Montagu was a founder of the Bank of England, and was from 1693 the first Chancellor of the Exchequer. The book presumably came to him by descent via his grandfather Henry Montagu, first Earl of Manchester, who in 1613 had married Anne, the widow of Leonard Halliday (to whom the book was originally presented by the author).





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