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First Thus. First edition thus. Blue cloth in dust-jacket. “A Treatise of Commerce” was penned by John Wheeler in the first years of the Seventeenth Century when he was the S ecretary of the Society of Merchants Adventurers of England. “This Elizabethian business book, considered to be the earliest important example of corporation publicity in English, has been edited [by George Burton Hotchkiss, with notes and introduction] primarily for business men and students of business history. It gives a realistic view if marketing methods and economic philosophy at the beginni ng of the Seventeenth Century. In addition it throws some new light on historical personages and the literature of the period.” Very good+ in toned, lightly worn very good dustjacket.