Merchants Mag & Commercial Review, Vol 26 Jan-Jun 1852

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Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, and Commercial Review. Conducted by Freeman Hunt, Editor of the Library of Commerce, Etc.; Corresponding Member of the American Statistical Society; Member of the New York Historical Society; Honorary Member of the Mercantile Library Associations of New York, Boston, Baltimore, Louisville, Charleston, and Cincinati, Etc., Etc. Volume Twenty-Six. From January to June, 1852", New-York: Published at 142 Fulton-Street MDCCCLII. As indicated by Mr. Hunt's creditials, each monthly volume contains an enormous amount of statistics, records, chronicles, as well as many articles of relevant topics of contemporary business subjects and their applications & regulations on their use and distribution. This is an important find for the researcher, historian, collectors, etc.. Though the word did not exist in this time frame, t will be found many "spreadsheets" and "data" pertinent to the national import/export of agricultural and business commodities, it documents everything from raw materials, their manufacture, delivery, and duties throughout the world. Each monthly issue consisted of the following sections: Articles - Topical issues of everything from tariffs to German commerce to social issues Journal of Mercantile Law Commercial Chronicle and Review: Embracing a Financial and Commercial Review of the United States, Etc., Illustrated With Tables, Etc., As Follows: Opening of the New Year - Commercial Changes in the Past - Unexpected Supply of Gold - Effect of Exports of Domestic Coin as Compared with Shipments of Foreign - Total Production of Domestic Gold From 1793 to the Close of 1851 - The Natural Course of Trade Sure to Be the Most Prosperous - Commerce of the United States for Year Ending June 30th, 1851 - Imports and Exports Compared - Increase Exports of Cotton - Comparative Exports of Cottom and Breadstuffs for Several Years - Average Price of Cotton Exported Since 1821 - (makes for quite interesting statistical measure with an unjaded eye of the legendary "King Cotton" historically touted as a priciple cause and effect of the soon to be Civil War) Commercial Statistics Journal of Banking, Currency, and Finance Commercial Regulations Nautical Intelligience Railroad, Canal, and Steamboat Statistics Journal of Mining and Manufactures Statistics of Population Mercantile Miscellanies Book Trade Following are some of the many issues discussed: The Fisheries of the United States (including: Origin of New England Fisheries, Early History, Policy of French and English, Action of Our Government to Encourage Our Fisheries, Act of 1789, Act of 1792, French Claims, Act lf 1912, Duties on Fish in Several Tariffs, Duty on Salt 1790 thru 1846 etc. These titles reflect only the first month's installment), Protections vs. Free Labor: The Law of Progress in the Relation of Capital and Labor, Money of Paper; or Inconvertible Paper-Money, Commercial Cities and Towns of the United States - Key West Florida, Trade and Commerce of Baltimore of 1850-51, Free Navigation of the River Parana and Its Tributaries, The Culture of Cotton in Turkey, Dr. Hare on the Law of Storms - Strictures Upon a Report Inspecting Storms Recently Made by Prof. Espy to the Secretary of the Navy, Life Insurance, Commerce of France in 1850, A National Currency - Real Estate as Its Basis, St. Louis and Her Means of Advancement and Wealth, The Currency - Gold and Silver, Laws Relating to Debtor and Creditor in Wisconsin, Fearless Feat of an American Whaleman, Homestead Exemption of South Carolina, Chicago: Its Trades and Growth in 1851, The United States in 1950 (a view at the future), The Commerce of St. Thomas, Dayton Ohio, The States of British America and the United States: Freedom of Trade and Union of Interests, English and American Currency, The Finances and Trade of the United Kingdom, Do Banks Increase Loanable Capital?, Of Arresting Conflagations in Commercial Cities, and much, much more.This book and its 784 including index pages, is in good condition, the pages exhibit light toning, t is no noteworthy foxing nor soili... read more

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