The merchants map of commerce : wherein the universal manner and matter of trade is compendiously handled. The standard and current coins of sundry princes observed. The real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges expressed. The natural and artificial commodities of all countreys for transportation declared. The weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick, collected and reduced one into another, and all to the meridian of commerce practised in the famous city of London
The Merchants Map of Commerce is a 1677 London trade handbook by Lewes Roberts, compiled for merchants and traders, covering coins, weights, measures and commodities of foreign ports. The pictures here are copper-plate maps of Europe, Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic, with dense place-names, faint rhumb lines and a small ship. A designer could take from them the antique cartographic look of labelled coastlines, compass-like grid lines and sepia tinting for vintage trade graphics.
