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Tables of the various Weights and Measures, and their different Coins, both imaginary and real, First edition of a series of tables "compiled with the greatest exactness, and which has been allowed to be the truest tables, and countenanced and recommended by the Armenian and Portugugal Merchants, who are continually trading from port to port in the East-Indies."Places treated of include Madras, Bengall, Malacca, Siam, Goa, Bombay, Surat, Muscat, Manilla and Canton, with details given of gold and silver weights, coins and exchanges, including Bengall Batty tables, grain measures, liquid and dry measures, port charges and customs on exports and commodities. According to the anonymous author, "The whole hath been found to be very useful to all persons trading to those parts, and hath detected the many frequent frauds and impositions committed by the natives" (title).

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