Postlethwayt, Malachy

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 MS 493
Held at	: Senate House Library, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections ›
Full title	: Postlethwayt, Malachy
Date(s)	: 1746-1750
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Postlethwayt | Malachy | c 1707-1767 | economic writer
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Malachy Postlethwayt was born c 1707. He spent twenty years compiling The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, 1751-1774. Between 1745 and 1758 Postlethwayt published other works on trade and commerce, including The African Trade the Great Pillar and Support of the British Plantation Trade in America, 1745 and Considerations on the Revival of Royal-British Assiento, 1749. Postlethwayt died in London on 13 September 1767.

Content

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Two unpublished manuscripts written between 1746-1750 regarding trade and commerce. References are made to the South Sea Company and British trade in America.

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English

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Date(s) of descriptions:
1999-09-23 Simon McKeon