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Rare Second Edition
PERI, Giovanni Domenico. Il Negotiante. Venice, Stamperia di Giovanni Giacomo Herz, 1649.
Large 4to. [16 x 22 cm], I: (4) ff., 232 p., (4) ff.; II: (4) ff., 170 pp., (3) ff.; 24 p., (Capitoli et Ordini). Bound in contemporary flexible vellum, title stenciled on spine, with an old stenciled shelf sticker as well. Some discoloration and inconsequentiual waterstain to title and scattered leaves; paper flaw on p. 42 with a single word poorly printed; but generally a large fresh copy, excellent.
$4,000 Rare second and expanded edition (first Genoa 1638) of this general mercantile primer by the Genoese Peri, a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of a businessman/merchant's duties and responsibilities. Topics covered include the nature of contracts, the different set of ledgers typically kept (especially those 'in-house'), how to draw up partnerships etc. One evidently unusual feature of the work is the large number of written-out examples of all kinds of contracts, bills of exchange and records of various kinds, with concrete dates, places, persons (all presumably fictitious) given, and even observing the varied formula which made such documents legally binding - oaths in the name of God, the Virgin etc. Similarly, there are model letters and invoices, an outline of the protocol of the eight days of a trading fair in Bisenzone, etc.
Although the author was Genoese and the work contains examples of Ligurian business customs, the work is not written in Genoese dialect, very rare for mercantile works according to Smith.
NUC lists Columbia, Berkeley, and PPT. The work first appeared in 1638; a second part appeared separately in 1647; the present edition unites them. Further additions appeared in 1662 and 1665 and the work continued to be reprinted into the early 18th century.
* Piantanida I.1111; Riccardi II.261n (no collation); OCLC lists a facsimile edited by Basil S. Yamey (Yushodo 1989).
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