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The ready reckoner; or Trader's most useful assistant in buying and selling all sorts of commodities...

The ready reckoner; or Trader's most useful assistant in buying and selling all sorts of commodities...

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The ready reckoner; or Trader's most useful assistant in buying and selling all sorts of commodities, either wholesale or retail. [electronic resource] : Shewing at one view the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandize, from one farthing to twenty shillings, either by the long or short hundred, half hundred or quarter, pound or ounce ell or yard, &c. &c. In so plain and easy a manner, that persons unacquainted with arithmetic may hereby ascertain the value of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells, or yards, &c. at any price whatever: and to the most ready in figures, it will be equally useful, by saving much time in fasting up what is here correctly done to their hands. To which are added, a table, shewing the number of days from any day in one month, to the same day in any other month; tables of interest, of the value of annuities., of brokerage, of expences, income, &c. A set of tax tables; an alphabetical list of the most common stamp duties; two tables, shewing the amount of every species of government stock and a comparative view of the price of stocks; and a table of the dimensions of the standard Winchester bushel, &c. By Daniel Fenning, author of the Royal English dictionary, Young man's book of knowledge. Use of the globes, The universal spelling book, A new English grammar, and others. The eleventh edition, with additions on board and timber measure, brick work, and guaging by the pen and slip-rule. Carefullly revised and corrected, by Joseph Moon, mathematician, Salisbury.

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The ready reckoner; or Trader's most useful assistant in buying and selling all sorts of commodities, either wholesale or retail. [electronic resource] : Shewing at one view the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandize, from one farthing to twenty shillings, either by the long or short hundred, half hundred or quarter, pound or ounce ell or yard, &c. &c. In so plain and easy a manner, that persons unacquainted with arithmetic may hereby ascertain the value of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells, or yards, &c. at any price whatever: and to the most ready in figures, it will be equally useful, by saving much time in fasting up what is here correctly done to their hands. To which are added, a table, shewing the number of days from any day in one month, to the same day in any other month; tables of interest, of the value of annuities., of brokerage, of expences, income, &c. A set of tax tables; an alphabetical list of the most common stamp duties; two tables, shewing the amount of every species of government stock and a comparative view of the price of stocks; and a table of the dimensions of the standard Winchester bushel, &c. By Daniel Fenning, author of the Royal English dictionary, Young man's book of knowledge. Use of the globes, The universal spelling book, A new English grammar, and others. The eleventh edition, with additions on board and timber measure, brick work, and guaging by the pen and slip-rule. Carefullly revised and corrected, by Joseph Moon, mathematician, Salisbury.

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London : Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, J. Johnson, G. and T. Wilkie, and B.C. Collins, 1797.

Date

1797.

Record Identifier

74VK2OaWr5x3

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991017992399702626

Language

English

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xii,[272]p. ; 8°.

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Publisher

London : Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, J. Johnson, G. and T. Wilkie, and B.C. Collins, 1797.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1797.

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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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The ready reckoner; or Trader's most useful assistant in buying and selling all sorts of commodities, either wholesale or retail. [electronic resource] : Shewing at one view the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandize, from one farthing to twenty shillings, either by the long or short hundred, half hundred or quarter, poun...

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Reproduction of original from British Library.

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ESTC N48465.

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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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991017992399702626