Commerce

1822 · Best.-Nr. 38089 — Washington. 1822. This Senate documents prints the memorial from America's foremost learned society asserting that that any tax on imported books is "detrimental to the progress of knowledge" and asking that those duties be suspended. The memorials written by Peter Duponceau and R.M. Patterson review the policies of other governments toward duties on imported books providing a useful survey of the tax policies of the major European powers. OCLC and American imprints together locate only five copies at Yale the University of Virginia the New York Law Institute the Library of Congress and Princeton. Scarce. Dbd. most leaves loose. Old stain in upper half throughout. Good. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 11000. OCLC 23248452. unknown