The merchants mappe of commerce wherein, the universall manner and matter of trade, is compendiously handled. The standerd and currant coines of sundry princes, observed. The reall and imaginary coines of accompts and exchanges, expressed. The naturall and artificiall commodities of all countries for transportation declared. The weights and measures of all eminent cities and tovvnes of traffique, collected and reduced one into another; and all to the meridian of commerce practised in the famous citie of London. By Lewes Roberts, merchant. Necessary for all such as shall be imployed in the publique affaires of princes in forreigne parts; for all gentlemen and others that travell abroad for delight or pleasure, and for all merchants or their factors that exercise the art of merchandizing in any part of the habitable world.
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The merchants mappe of commerce wherein, the universall manner and matter of trade, is compendiously handled. The standerd and currant coines of sundry princes, observed. The reall and imaginary coines of accompts and exchanges, expressed. The naturall and artificiall commodities of all countries for transportation declared. The weights and measures of all eminent cities and tovvnes of traffique, collected and reduced one into another; and all to the meridian of commerce practised in the famous citie of London. By Lewes Roberts, merchant. Necessary for all such as shall be imployed in the publique affaires of princes in forreigne parts; for all gentlemen and others that travell abroad for delight or pleasure, and for all merchants or their factors that exercise the art of merchandizing in any part of the habitable world.
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Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.
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At London :: Printed by R. O[ulton, Eliot's Court Press?, Thomas Harper, and Felix Kingston] for Ralph Mabb,
MDCXXXVIII. [1638]
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Coinage -- Early works to 1800.
Weights and measures -- Early works to 1800.
Commerce -- Early works to 1800.
Balance of trade -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800.
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"The merchants mappe of commerce wherein, the universall manner and matter of trade, is compendiously handled. The standerd and currant coines of sundry princes, observed. The reall and imaginary coines of accompts and exchanges, expressed. The naturall and artificiall commodities of all countries for transportation declared. The weights and measures of all eminent cities and tovvnes of traffique, collected and reduced one into another; and all to the meridian of commerce practised in the famous citie of London. By Lewes Roberts, merchant. Necessary for all such as shall be imployed in the publique affaires of princes in forreigne parts; for all gentlemen and others that travell abroad for delight or pleasure, and for all merchants or their factors that exercise the art of merchandizing in any part of the habitable world." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10821.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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CHAP. LXXXVI.
Of Zagathai and Cathai, and the Provinces thereof.
ZAgathai containes sundry Provinces, and but few Ci∣ties; * 1.1 the most famous is Sarmachand, which gave both * 1.2cradle and grave to mighty Tamberlan, from whom the Great Moguls boast themselves to bee lineally de∣scended.
But Cathai is esteemed the richest and civillest Kingdome of all * 1.3Tartary, the which is furnished with sundry great and populous Cities, especially Cambalu, the residence of the Great Cham, and * 1.4 where Merchants of all Nations are found to reside and traffique to; as I shall shew hereafter.
This Countrey is found to abound with rice, graine, wool, hempe, Rubarbe, corrall, and aboundance of silkes, both growing and * 1.5 brought hither from China and other Countries amounting to two thousand Cartes yearely; the Citie is held to be 30 miles a∣bout in compasse, and is replenished with all Artsmen (Astrologers being heere in great reputation) which may (considering their number found here, being as some write 5000) be more properly termed fortune-tellers, or Gypsies; but these Countries resemble in customes the Moscovite and Chinois, none being permitted to search into their Cities and manners, except they come either as Embassadors or Merchants; yet what I have gathered of the trade of this Countrey, I will include under the title of Cambalu, the principall Citie of this Empire.