The World for a Marketplace: Episodes in the History of European Expansion

Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author. Number 37 of 60 numbered copies (from a total edition of 1200). Blue cloth, foil titles on front board & spine, dec. endpapers, viii, 253, [1] pp, numerous illustrations, references, index, list of Associates past & present. Inscribed by author "To J. Harold Kittleson, dean of Twin Cities bookmen, and good friend, with best wishes, Jack" on half-title. Additional items laid in include a prospectus for the book, autograph text of two brief speeches Kittleson prepared to introduce Parker to audiences at the Minneapolis Public Library and the Skylight Club, a flyer for an exhibition of the Bell Library's manuscripts, an Associates' membership flyer, and a newspaper review of the book. The book discusses 15-century Portuguese trade in Africa; the role of bankers in the beginnings of European expansion; the tobacco trade; Europe's intrusion into trade in the Indian Ocean; the Canadian fur trade; Dutch and Swedish trading companies in America; 17th century sea law and commerce; the 1688 Siamese revolution; a failed Scottish colony; John Law and the Mississippi Company; the study of nature; indigo production and use; the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings, Governor-General of the East India Company; and the struggle to end the slave trade; as illustrated by manuscripts and books in the Bell Library's collection.. Limited/Numbered. . VG/No dj. 26 X 19 cm.