Page from "The Commercial and Political Atlas" by William Playfair (1786)

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Detail of page from "The Commercial and Political Atlas" by William Playfair (1786).

"As knowledge increases amongst mankind, and transactions multiply, it becomes more and more desirable to abbreviate and facilitate the modes of conveying information from one person to another, and from one individual to the many."

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Page from "The Commercial and Political Atlas" by William Playfair (1786)

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