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This title is known by several names including the dun and bradstreet reference book, or simply the reference book. Containing ratings of the merchants, manufacturers, and traders generally mercantile agency, r. The book makes an attempt, to present the vast and complicated subject of mercantile law in a manner, easily comprehensible to the students, teachers, laymen, businessman and all others interested in the study of main business laws. Mercantile definition in the cambridge english dictionary. Containing names and ratings of the principal merchants, traders, and manufacturers in ontario, quebec, nova scotia, new brunswick, prince. Newfoundland, and prince edward island mercantile agency on. Full text of the mercantile agency reference book and key. There are other credit reference books available for specific industries and types of businesses. Credit bureaus were the nsa of the 19th century the atlantic. The mercantile agency reference book, and key microform.
Publication date 1864 topics business, merchants, credit ratings, industries publisher montreal. Subscribers no longer had to visit the mercantile agencys offices in person. The first set of dun records are reference books which were published by a. Shop from our large selection of vintage book reference book. The arizona reference files, bulk 1870s to 1960s, contain wideranging types of material regarding jewish individuals and institutions in arizona, principally southern arizona. Reference book and key containing ratings of merchants, manufactureres and traders generally. Mercantile or commercial agencies, is the name given in united states to organizations designed to collect, record and distribute to regular clients information relative to the standing of commercial firms. Credit reports collection use the guide to identify volumes relevant to your research project. The book covers provisions of contract act, sale of goods act, partnership act, negotiable instruments act, arbitration act and laws. Containing ratings of the merchants, manufacturers, and traders generally, throughout the dominion of canada, new foundland, magdalen.
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A few pages with penciled initials next to entries. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. It might perhaps be said with more accuracy that the collection agency. View this catalog record in worldcat for other possible copy locations. The mercantile agency reference book for the british provinces volume 3.
Copies of this book was issued to various business in the state of nebraska and was used as a reference for classifications of trade, pecuniary strengths and credit as well as banks and bankers in nebraska. Very good first edition no dust jacket 1, 353 clean pages with 9 pgs. The mercantile agency reference book and key with a list of banks and bankers, state collection laws, maps, etc. Douglass enacted a direct mail list for subscribers and also published the agencys first reference book. Apple springs, texas directory listing of businesses, 1919. Mercantile agency definition of mercantile agency by. To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, im or document to embed the entire object, paste this html in website to link to this page, paste this link in email, im or document to embed this page, paste this html in website. If you have already created your account, you can login using your email address or reference number. If you have not created an account yet, click here to confirm your identity and then access your account.
Mercantile agency new york 23 editions published between 1906 and 1935 in english and held by 56 worldcat member libraries worldwide. Value of rg dunn mercantile agency reference book vol. Mercantile definition, of or relating to merchants or trade. Mercantile agency reference books, in which firms throughout the nation. This book is a wonderful source for finding anyone in canada around the year 1890 1900 if they were engaged in an occupation which involved buying wholesale goods from merchants who were not local to them physically. While not one of the big three, the mercantile agency is arguably the oldest american credit agency, who published their first credit ratings guide in 1859. The mercantile agencys credit rating resource for july, 1928, about a year before the great crash of 1929. The mercantile agency reference book was published as a. Credit reference book of the lyon furniture mercantile. The only other change of note is that beginning in 1966 the size changed to a more standard size and came in. When dunone of tappans eventual successors at the agencycame out with his own reference book, the volumes came equipped with locks.
The mercantile agency reference book and key containing ratings of. From cambridge english corpus globalisation in the form of mercantile trade throughout these regions is also likely to have had a significant impact on the language of business. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at. Collection agencies the collection agency is a concern making a specialty of collecting debts, and more particularly those debts which the collection manager cannot himself collect.
Focuses on california, but also includes nevada, oregon, idaho, montana and washington. The mercantile agency reference book, and key electronic resource. Dun and bradstreet mercantile agency reference book 1908 dunn, seth. Excerpt from the mercantile agency reference book and key, for the dominion of canada, vol.