ECONOMICS PHILIPS ERASMUS The State of the Nation In Respe

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[PHILIPS, ERASMUS.] The State of the Nation, In Respect to her Commerce, Debts, and Money. [16], 152 pages. 8vo, 19th-century 1/2 calf, spine worn, most of lettering piece off; marginal dampstaining throughout, title lightly soiled and spotted, owner's pencil notes on front endpapers. London: J. Woodman and D. Lyon, 1725

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first edition. "Philips's best-known work was his The State of the Nation . . . Here he suggested that the open commercial policy of the Netherlands was a model worthy of imitation by Britain" (ODNB). Pages [59]-106 reprint the English text of the 1713 Assiento, the agreement by which Spain granted England a 30-year monopoly on the provision of African slaves to Spanish colonies in the Americas. Alden 725/157.