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PRESENTATION COPY TO LORD AUCKLAND - SHEFFIELD (John Baker Holroyd, Earl of) Strictures on the necessity of inviolably maintaining the navigation and colonial system of Great Britain. London, J Debrett, 1804 8vo, iv + 65 + (3)pp, including the final leaf of advertisements, with a few ms. notes added in ink in a contemporary hand, recently well bound in cloth-backed marbled boards gilt. A very good copy.A presentation copy inscribed at head of title, 'To The Lord Auckland from the Author'. First edition. Williams I, 407. Kress B.4849. Goldsmiths 18858. Not in Einaudi. Sheffield's Strictures point out that the Navigation Laws had been suspended by recent temporary legislation; and the danger of such a course "because such suspension must render England a free port, of the consequences of which neither the legislature nor the country are sufficiently aware". He further shows the violation of the navigation laws to be "injurious to every branch of our marine; discouraging to seamen, and to the ship-building trade; and adverse to the prompt equipment of a great naval force". He comments on the extraordinary decline of British, and the increase of American, tonnage; and differs totally from the opinion of M Gentz, that the navigation laws are "commercially injurious", but "politically wise". Price - £150 |
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