Schoff Wilfred H. The Periplus of the Erythræan sea: travel and trade in the Indian Ocean by a merchant of the First Century

New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912. — 329 p.The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea is the first record of organized trading with the nations of the East, in vessels built and commanded bv subjects of the Western world.
The notes add great interest, giving as they do an exhaustive survey of the international trade between the great empires of Rome, Parthia, India and China, together with a collection of facts touching the early trade of a number of other countries of much interest.
The whole trade of the world is every day coming more and more under exact laws of demand and supply. When the history of commerce from its earliest dawn to its present tremendous international proportions shall be carefully written, the Periplus will furnish a most interesting part of such early history, and the Commercial Museum will not have to apologize for rescuing this work from obscurity and presenting it to the general public.