Trade Letters. Berditchov 1894

Trade Letters. Berditchov 1894

Trade Letters -  part I: One hundred different letters in matters of trade and property prepared for the spirit of the merchants.  part II 'Foreign vocabulary from the world of trade'. part III: 'Commercial laws'. by R. Dov Arie Friedman. Berditchov 1894. Separate title page for each part.

A Rare publicity that includes a hundred letters written by Jewish merchants in Eastern Europe, and faithfully reflects the world of Jewish commerce in the 19th century: fascinating letters dealing with bookstores that had to close for various reasons, competitions between printers and publishers about Printing rights, alliances between merchants, Agreements on distribution areas, requests of workers to register in the books of trading houses, letters regarding goods that did not reach their destination, disputes between merchants about goods that were not sold at the time, trade relations between Jews and non-Jews, and many more.

In the second part of the book, the author brought 'a vocabulary of foreign words that are used in the world of commerce' - a useful dictionary of words used in commerce in the order of A-B, some in Yiddish, or words derived from foreign languages, and their useful meaning. In the third and final part of the book 'Trade Laws' which deals with the prices of shipments between countries, the number of words allowed to be written on packaged packages, etc.

46, 38 p. 20 cm. not bound. Detached leaves. Good condition.