Political arithmetick,. or A discourse concerning, the extent and value of the lands, people, buildings; husbandry, manufacture, commerce, fishery, artizans, seamen, soldiers; publick revenues, interest, taxes, superlucration, registries, banks; valuation of men, increasing of seamen, of militia's, harbours, situation, shipping, power at sea, &c. As the same relates to every country in general, but more particularly to the territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and his neighbours of Holland, Zealand, and France. By Sir William Petty, late Fellow of the Royal Society.
Sir William Petty (1623-1687)
Category
Books
Date
1691
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3101976
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24],117,[3]p. ; 8vo. Final advertisement leaves unopened. Provenance: eighteenth-century early armorial bookplate of Richard Banner, with motto: "Nil sine numine" F1380/81 [i.e. Richard Banner (b. 1696), sold library from Little Aston Hall to Thomas Anson in about 1745]. Binding: late eighteenth-century sprinkled sheep; double blind fillet border; blind roll quarter side; blind ruled spine.
Makers and roles
Sir William Petty (1623-1687), author