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HUET, PIERRE-DANIEL. Histoire du Commerce, et de la Navigation des Anciens. [92], 446 pages. 8vo, 166x92 mm, modern 1/4 calf; contents toned, light dampstains and minor repairs on lower portion of title, blank lower inner corner excised from b2.3. Paris: François Fournier & Antoine-Urbain Coustelier, 1716
first edition of a history of trade and navigation in antiquity, and commercial relations between the peoples of the Mediterranean, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. "Chapt. 15 mentions that America may have been the 'Isle Fortunée' discovered in the Atlantic and colonized by the Carthaginians"--Alden 716/69.
