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Holroyd, John Baker Earl of Sheffield. OBSERVATIONS ON THE COMMERCE OF THE AMERICAN STATES A NEW EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING TABLES… Dublin: Luke White 1784. Cont. calf; 10, [6], 287, [1]; 24 pp. With 11 tables at back (10 folding). Table 3 is 4 leaves, one folding, an Table 9 contains the final 24 pages of text. Nicely rebacked, old red morocco label laid down. This is the far more uncommon first Irish edition. Very good; wear and scuffing to boards; light soiling to some plates – but crisp without foxing; title page reinforced at spine.
$450
John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (1735-1821) was an English politician who wrote this fascinating look into the commerce of the early American states. It details the trade of books, wool, buttons, tin, medicine, wine, rice, iron, coffee, molasses, flour, as well as the trade between the States and various countries in the world. Of especial interest are the detailed accounts of trade with the West Indies and lets be honest, the chapters on brandy and rum are far more interesting than those on iron and tin. One of several revisions, each much expanded and with new data. This was Sheffield’s attack upon proposals to relax the navigation laws against the new United States of America. Wright Howes Bibliography entry H616 states: “Pointed out superciliously the helpless position of American commerce, and thus influenced the shaping of England’s trade policy from 1783 to 1789, so detrimental to American commerce and shipping interests as to contribute greatly to the formation of a Federal union” A foundational text of early business and trade in the United States. At the time of cataloguing, no other copy of this Irish edition for sale.
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