Pierre-Daniel HUET

Mémoires sur le commerce des Hollandois, dans tous les Etats et Empires du monde. Où l'on montre quelle est leur manière de le faire, son origine, leurs grands progrès, leurs possessions & gouvernement dans les Indes. Comment ils se sont rendus maîtres de tout le commerce de l'Europe. Quelles sont les marchandises convenables au trafic maritime. D'où ils les tirent, & les gains qu'ils y font (...)

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[Memoirs on the Trade of the Dutch in All the States and Empires of the World. Showing the Manner in Which They Conduct It, Its Origin, Their Great Progress, Their Possessions and Government in the Indies; How They Became Masters of All the Commerce of Europe; What Goods Are Suitable for Maritime Trade, Whence They Procure Them, and the Profits They Derive (...)]

Amsterdam 1718|10.5 x 17.4 cm|Relié

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⬨ 89720

Third edition, the second issued under this title, partly original as it includes several new memoirs and the general tariff of Holland.

See Sabin 47557. Cioranescu 35613. Kress 3019. Not in Goldsmiths or Einaudi. See INED 2306 for the "Grand trésor historique et politique du florissant commerce des Hollandois" (1712).

Amsterdam, Du Villard, Changuion, 1718, 8vo,

Full mottled tan calf, spine with raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, garlands and floral tools (partly faded), red morocco title label, gilt rolls at the head and tail, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillet on board edges, red edges, one lower corner bumped, others slightly rubbed, contemporary binding.

The author is the renowned scholar Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721), Bishop of Avranches.

The work first appeared in 1712 under a different title: Le Grand trésor historique et politique du florissant commerce des Hollandois dans tous les États et empires de ce monde. Dutch trade is taken as an example “to awaken French commerce and make it prevail over all others.” Cf. INED.

Trade in Europe, origins and causes of the great Dutch trade, commerce in the North, Muscovy and Norway, the Baltic Sea, Elbe, Weser, Rhine, Meuse, Spanish Netherlands, England, France, Spain, the Mediterranean, Italy, Asia, the Dutch East India Company (pp. 187–239), “Rapport fait aux Estats Généraux des Provinces-Unies, par le Commandeur de la derniere flote venuë des Indes Orientales très-richement chargée” (Banda, Amboina, Ternate, Macassar, Timor, Siam, Japan, China, Tonkin, Malacca, Sumatra, Padang, Bengal, Coromandel, Ceylon, Malabar, Surat, Persia, Batavia, Bantam).