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Descriptive Information

Title
Political arithmetick, or, A discourse concerning, the extent and value of lands, people, buildings husbandry, manufacture, commerce, fishery, artizans, seamen, soldiers; publick revenues, interest, taxes, superlucration, registries, banks; valuation of men, increasing of seamen, of militia’s, harbours, situation, shipping, power at sea, &c. : as the same relates to every country in general, but more particularly to the territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and His neighbours of Holland, Zealand, and France / by Sir William Petty.
Call Number
HB151 .P46
Lapidus 5.1587
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc4x51hv22q
Publisher
London : For Robert Clavel, and Hen. Mortlock, 1691.
Language
English
Date Created
1691
Extent
[22], 117, [3] p. ; (8vo)
Provenance
Princeton copy 2 "Ex libris Chas. Pothill" -- in ms. on front free endpaper.
Princeton copy 2 "Thomas Edwards his book, April 20th 1796, Holywell, Flintshire" -- struck thru. "Henry Parry, Manasa Dec. 3d 1800" -- front free endpaper.
Princeton copy 1 ink annotations (about 1200 words) in an unknown hand on front pastedown and free endpaper, 'A comparison with France as it was 30 years ago with England even as it now is in 1696'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC R19301
Wing P1933.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Dedication signed: Shelborne, i.e. Charles Petty, Baron Shelburne.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 contemporary sprinkled sheep.

Discovery Information

Subject
Economics—Early works to 1800
Great Britain—Economic conditions
Annotations

Physical Characteristics

File Count
154

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2fcebe85-dd55-4fd9-be99-80151bec9fc0/manifest