Rariora; being notes of some of the printed books, manuscripts, historical documents, medals, engravings, pottery, etc., collected (1858-1900) (1902)
Hodgkin, John Eliot · London : S. Low, Marston & Co., ltd. · leaf 261
countries and towns,correlations of weights and measures, weights and values of coins, terms of payment of letters of exchange,all in the greatest detail, giving a lively insight into the extraordinary complication at this period environingall merchants and bankers computations. A chapter (clxxii.)… … TITLE OF I.IBRD ni MERCANTIE. (R.iKT. DI LIBRI, circa 1496.;{THE EARLIEST irOODCUT OF A JSA.VKEKS COUXTER.) Two yards and a quarter of London cloth measure one c/iana of Genoa. A hundred yards of Londoncloth make in Sybilia a hundred and six van, hut the buyer gets a rebate of 4 per cent, for…
Collectors and collecting · Book collecting · Rare books · Incunabula · Printing · Fireworks · Broadsides
Internet Archive · California Digital Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
