A select collection of scarce and valuable economical tracts, from the originals of Defoe, Elking, Franklin, Turgot, Anderson, Schomberg, Townsend, Burke, Bell, and others : with a preface, notes and index

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A select collection of scarce and valuable economical tracts, from the originals of Defoe, Elking, Franklin, Turgot, Anderson, Schomberg, Townsend, Burke, Bell, and others : with a preface, notes and index

[s.n.], 1859

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Scarce and valuable economical tracts

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Half title: Scarce and valuable economical tracts

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Contents of Works

  • An apology for the builder, or, A discourse shewing the cause and deffects of the increase of building / [Nicholas Barbon]
  • Giving alms no charity, and employing the poor a grievance to the nation : being essay upon this great question ... / [Daniel Defoe]
  • A view of the Greenland trade and whale-fishery : with the national and private advantages thereof / [Henry Elking]
  • An apology for the business of pawn-broking / by a pawn-broker [i.e. Thomas Wise]
  • Extracts from the works of Dr. Franklin, on population, commerce, &c
  • Reflections on the formation and distribution of wealth / by M. Turgot ...
  • Extract from an inquiry into the nature of the Corn Laws : with a view to the new Corn-Bill proposed for Scotland / [James Anderson]
  • A treatise on the maritime laws of rhodes / by Alexander C. Schomberg ...
  • A dissertation on the Poor Laws / by a well-wisher to mankind [i.e. Joseph Townsend]
  • Thoughts and details on scarcity : originally presented to the Right Hon. William Pitt, in the month of November, 1795 / by the late Right Hon. Edmund Burke
  • An inquiry into the policy and justice of the prohibition of the use of grain in the distilleries ... / by Archibald Bell, Esq. ...

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