Merchants & scholars : essays in the history of exploration and trade, collected in memory of James Ford Bell / Merchants and scholars edited by John Parker. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ; [1965] - 258 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

"A publication from the James Ford Bell Collection."

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction, by J. Parker.--Geography in fifteenth century Florence, by T. Goldstein.--The discoveries and the humanists, by E.F. Hirsch.--Coromandel trade in medieval India, by B. Stein.--The Van Deutecum map of Russian and Tartary, by J.W. Webb.--Henry Hudson and the early exploration and mapping of Hudson Bay, 1610 to 1631, by E.C. Abbe and F.J. Gillis.--England and the St. Lawrence, 1577 to 1602, by D.B. Quinn.--Caribbean sugar-production standards in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by W. Barrett.--Slaves for the galleys of France, 1665 to 1700, by P.W. Bamford.--English enterprise in the region of the Strait of Magellan, by H. Wallis.--De Lozier Bouvet and mercantilist expansion in the Pacific in 1740, by O.H.K. Spate.



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Bell, James Ford, 1879-1961.


Commerce--History.
Discoveries in geography.
Commerce.
Discoveries in geography.
Commerce--History.
Discoveries in geography.


History.

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