Navigation and commerce, their original and progress. Containing a succinct account of traffick in general; its benefits and improvements: of discoveries, wars and conflicts at sea, from the original of navigation to this day; with special regard to the English nation. By J. Evelyn.

Accession number

PML 43868

Creator

Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.

Published

London : Printed by J.R. for B. Tooke, 1674.

Notes

First edition; 1st leaf a blank and genuine.
"Books sold by Benj. Tooke", 2 p. at end.
This copy listed among the books bound by Samuel Mearne for Charles II in a statement preserved in the Thynne papers, the archives of the Marquess of Bath, Longleat, vol. 73 (box 26), leaf 26v.

Description

3 p., 120, [13] p. 18 cm

Provenance

Purchased from Davis & Orioli in 1952.

Binding

Full red morocco with cipher of King Charles II.

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Navigation and commerce, their original and progress. Containing a succinct account of traffick in general; its benefits and improvements: of discoveries, wars and conflicts at sea, from the original of navigation to this day; with special regard to the English nation. By J. Evelyn.