The autobiography of Capt Zachary G. Lamson, 1791 t0 1814
Boston: W. B. Clarke Company, 1908. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 279 pages. Footnotes. Frontis. Tables. Facsimile. Front board weak, strengthened with glue. Cover has some wear and soiling. Stamp of previous owner inside front cover. Some page discoloration. In studying commercial conditions at the beginning of the last century, it is necessary to remember what an important factor colonial trade was in the commerce of that day, and it is impossible to understand the intricacies of this trade unless one continually keeps in mind the fact that the colony and the mother country were really one. Granted this fact, there was no more reason why one country should claim the right to trade with the colony of another than to claim the right to share in the coasting trade of that country, which, as is well known, is reserved even to-day by the United States for its own vessels. Capt. Lamson's memoir brings us into this bygone world and its naval and maritime realities. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Zachariah Gage Lamson; Entrepot; War of 1812; Sailors; Ship Captain; Armed Neutrality; International Trade; Embargo; Impressment; Marblehead; Whaling; Commercial Fishing; Merchant Marine; William Gray; Bundling; Feretier; Edward Chapman
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