PERI, Giovanni Domenico (1564-1639) Il Negotiante. Diviso in quattro parti. Aggiuntovi in questa edizione il Secretario di banco di Mattia Cramero. - Venezia, Hertz, 1697
Small 4to. Contemp. vellum (hinges weak). (8), 208 pp.; (12), 128, (4) pp.; (8), 129, (7, last 2 blank) pp.; (8), 51 pp.; 118, (12) pp.; some occasional light foxing, but a good copy
Peri was a rich and learned merchant in Genoa who based this work primarily on his own experience. «It is a technical handbook for merchants, to teach them trading and book-keeping... It contains also interesting historical notices on the exchanges between the principal Italian and foreign cities... Peri demonstrates the importance of merchants (and) treats also of mercantile contracts... The work is still interesting, especially for the history of the mercantile customs of those times» (Palgrave III, 94). The work by Matthias Kramer (1640-1727) is printed here for the first time. Palgrave III, 94. Einaudi 4393. Kress, Italian, 191 e 193. Goldsmiths' 3400. Riccardi V, 120 e II, 261: «E' notata dal Libri come una delle opere pił interessanti di tecnica bancaria».
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