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manner) as entertaining an idea that the first 
edition is dated 1609. 
I could satisfactorily have answered this in the 
negative, and from the undeniable evidence of my 
own copy of the work, that the supposed dategof 
1609 is a mistake ; and that the first edition, as 
well as the second, is dated 1621. 
The title-page of the first edition runs thus: 
“A Discourse of Trade from England unto the East 
Indies: Answering to diuerse Obiections which are usually 
made against the sume. By T. M. London; printed by 
Nicholas Okes for John Pyper, 1621.” (4to., pp. 58.) 
The fact that the publication of this work forms 
almost an epoch in the history of commercial 
principles, and that the date of 1609, quoted 
doubtingly by Mr. M°Culloch, is quoted posi- 
tively by some foreign writers, would constitute a 
sufficient reason for this Note; but I am the 
more induced to submit it now from the following 
circumstance. The Political Economy Club, one 
of the most distinguished private literary and 
scientific societies of the metropolis, and which 
includes amongst its forty members many of the 
first political economists and statesmen of the day, 
has, with a true regard to the objects of its founda- 
tion, devoted a portion of a surplus fund at its 
disposal to the editing, for distribution to its 
members and their immediate friends, one hundred 
copies of a handsome octavo volume of reprints of 
rare and valuable Commercial and Politico-Eco- 
nomical Tracts by early writers, as Mun, Fortrey, 
North, &c. 
The preface to this volume has been written by 
Mr. M‘Culloch, and the tracts contained in it 
were chosen by that gentleman from his own 
library. Mun’s Discourse, §c., is reprinted from 
the second edition, and Mr. M°Culloch again 
refers to the first edition as stated to have ap- 
peared in 1609. 
I trust that the present Note, in correction of 
that date, may not entirely escape any future 
editor of Mun’s works. On the subject of the 
early East Indian trade, and of the controversial 
pamphlets it gave rise to, there are several biblio-’ 
graphical notes in Mr. Macaulay’s History of Eng- 
land; and, to indicate to your readers that the 
question of the export of bullion from England to 
the East Indies is by no means an exhausted, or 
merely antiquarian, speculation, but a topic of 
existing importance, I may refer them to the 
paper which will appear in the next number of 
the Statistical Society’s Journal, contributed by 
Colonel Sykes, the chairman elect of the East 
India Company. Frep. Henprixs. 
RARE BOOKS RELATING TO IRELAND, ETC. 
I send you the names of a few rare books, 
mostly relating to Ireland, from the Catalogue of 
Miscellaneous Books, which will be sold this week 
at the Literary Sale Rooms, Anglesea Street, 
Dublin. Should you approve of the list, it may 
be well to give it a permanent record in “N. & 
Q.,” as 1 have no doubt many of the articles will 
interest your readers : — 
9. The Magazine of Magazines (printed in Limerick). 
5 vols,, various. V. d. 
37. Drake’s Historia Anglo-Scotica (very rare). 
London. 1703. . 
39. Barrymcre’s (Earl of ) Life (curious and rare). 
London. 1793. 
61. Lynch’s Historical Treatise of the Travels of Noah 
into Europe. London, 1601. 
A most rare book, almost unique, by Lynch, an Irishman 
of Galway. This copy is from the library of the late 
bb a 3 1V., when Duke of Clarence, and has his book- 
plate. 
76. Dunton’s Dublin Scuffle. London. 1699, 
99. Plates of the Battle of the Boyne, and various 
pihers relative to Irish History (exceedingly rare), La 
aye, 
100, Fitz-Gerald’s Cork Remembrancer (rare). Cork. 
783," 
101. Walsh’s (Father Peter) Four Letters to Persons 
of Quality (scarce). 1686, 
125, Flores omnium pené Doctorum qui tum in Theo- 
logia, tum in Philosophia hactenus claruerint, per Tho- 
mam Hibernicum, vellum (scarce), Lugd. 1567, 
127. Beling (R.) Vindiciarum Catholicorum Hibernizx, 
Autore Philopatro Irendo (very rare). Paris. 1650. 
175. Amusing Summer Companion to Glanmire 
(searce), Cork. 1814. 
176. Frowde’s (Captain Neville of Cork) Life and Ex- 
traordinary Adventures (rare). Berwick. 1792. 
197. Carleton’s (Bp.) Thankfull Remembrance of God’s 
Mercie, in an Historical Collection of the Great and Mer- 
cifull Deliverances of the Church and State since the 
Gospell beganne here to flourish from the beginning of ° 
Queene Elizabeth, illustrated with very curious Plates 
relating to Ireland (excessively rare). London. 1630. 
201. Talbot’s (R. C. Archbp. of Dublin) ‘Treatise on 
Religion and Government (very scarce), 1670. 
213. Edmundson’s (William) Journal, containing va- 
rious Scenes and Transactions in Ireland (scarce). Dublin. 
1715. 
227. Turner’s (Dawson) Thirty-six Etchings of Irish 
Antiquities (unpublished). 1830. 
It is almost impossible that another copy of this should 
ever turn up for sale, fifteen copies only having been 
printed for private distribution, as will be seen by re- 
ferring to back of title-page. This copy, which be- 
longed to the author, Dawson Turner, has his autograph, 
and a list of the parties to whom the fifteen copies 
were presented, in his handwriting Nearly all the 
copies have since passed into public libraries. 
231. Cavallerius (J. B. de) de Ecclesia Anglicane 
Trophea, Plates of English Martyrs. Roma, 1583. 
An excessively rare work, containing the martyrdom of 
various English and Irish Saints, and also a curious 
view of a street in Canterbury pillaged by the Danes. . 
246. Herbert’s (Thos.) Travels into Africa, Asia, &c, 
Plates. London. 1638. 
Contains a curious history of the discovery of America by 
a Welshman, above 300 years before Columbus. 
256. Ware’s Antiquities of Ireland, by Harris. 2 vols, 
ck 
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