Gee, Joshua, 1698-1748. The trade and navigation of Great-Britain considered : : shewing that the surest way for a nation to increase in riches, is to prevent the importation of such foreign commodities as may be rais'd at home. : That this kingdom is capable of raising within itself, and its colonies, materials for employing all our poor in those manufactures, which we now import fromn such of our neighbours who refuse the admission of ours. : Some account of the commodities each country we trade with takes from us, and what we take from them, with observations on the balance.

The trade and navigation of Great-Britain considered : : shewing that the surest way for a nation to increase in riches, is to prevent the importation of such foreign commodities as may be rais'd at home. : That this kingdom is capable of raising within itself, and its colonies, materials for employing all our poor in those manufactures, which we now import fromn such of our neighbours who refuse the admission of ours. : Some account of the commodities each country we trade with takes from us, and what we take from them, with observations on the balance.

Bound with Burke, Examination, q.v.; item 7 in volume. Modern half sheep; MS table of contents on flyleaf in Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801-1803, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia; sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Note: BF excerpted from this work in the Pennsyvania gazette, 5 January 1731, commenting, "At the End we have subjoined an Extract from a new Piece, entituled, The Trade and Navigation of Great Britain considered, &c. written by Mr. Joshua Gee, and by him presented within this 12 month to the King, Queen, Prince, Lords of Trade, and every Member of Parliament; by which the Reader may be informed what Commodities the several Colonies Trade in" (P 1: 213214).