A Dissertation on the Plan, Use, and Importance, of the Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce; Translated from the French of the Late Celebrated ... of Paris with Such Considerable a - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1154561933 ISBN 13: 9781154561937

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1749 Excerpt: ... We have not omitted to add at the end of each article, the most useful part of Mons.Pomet's Treatise, the distinguishing characteristics, by which the goodness of drugs may be known, the different frauds whereby they may be sophisticated, and how to distinguish the genuine. The articles that concern the corporations of arts and trades, are principally composed from their own statutes. To them we have added extracts from all the determinations we could come at, which passed, either by the council, the parliament, or inferior jurisdictions, to regulate the respective pretensions of those corporations, and to divide amongst them the different works and merchandize for which they contended with each other: and we have repeated the edicts, declarations, and letters patents, which raised them into bodies corporate, since the year 1600 to the present time; especially during the long reign of Lewis XIV, when the necessities of the state rendered it so fruitful of suchlike institutions. Mons. Salary, the father, had collected some of these pieces, and the author had much augmented them; but it was the survivor that completed the collection. Most of the chiefs of the corporations, convinced of the utility of our Dictionary, generously communicated those materials; but some, prejudiced from a notion they were requested only for the fake of prying into the secrets. of their affairs and trade, with intention to impose new taxations, obstinately refused them j and others could not furnish us, they not being registered among their archives. We made good use of Mons. Felibien's Principles of-Architecture, in regardto the arts treated of by that learned author in his excellent tract. The articles of horses and studs, which the best judges have not considered as the meanest ...

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• ISBN 10: 1154561933
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