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Kearsly's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1776 [electronic resource] : Contain...

Kearsly's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1776 [electronic resource] : Contain...

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Kearsly's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1776 [electronic resource] : Containing fifty two pages for accounts, bills due, appointments, and occasional memorandums, with a much greater variety of useful articles than are to be found in any other publication of this kind; particularly, list of holidays in the year 1775. Tables of interest. Value of annuities. Tables for buying and selling by weight or measure. Upwards of seventy things very necessary to be known in various brances of business. A complete term table, with the returns. Distances of towns, villages, &c. upon the River Thames. Manner of producing colours by the mixture of colourless fluids. Ditto by coloured fluids. List of all the cities, towns, and villages in England, with their distances from London, and market-days. List of all the public-officers. List of Bankers. Account of the days and hours for transferring stock. Table shewing the bearing, distance, longest day, and differene of meridians of most of the principal cities in the world, from the city of London. Daily pay of each rank in His Majesty's land forces. Circuits of the judges. The economist; shewing how comfortably a family may live for a little money, also the cheapest way of keeping horses and carriages. Road from Boston to New-York, Phildelphia, Annapolis Maryland, Williamsburg, Virgina, Charles, Town South Carolina, through the country; likewise the names of the towns, forts &c. from the river St. Lawrence to the Missisippi. Weight of gold compared with other metals. Rational amusements, consisting of upwards of thirty curious experiments. A correct list of the two Houses of Parliament, with the officers belonging to each House. Prices of different comodities from the year 1000 to 1760, and a variety of other articles, which may be seen in the table of contents.

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Kearsly's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1776 [electronic resource] : Containing fifty two pages for accounts, bills due, appointments, and occasional memorandums, with a much greater variety of useful articles than are to be found in any other publication of this kind; particularly, list of holidays in the year 1775. Tables of interest. Value of annuities. Tables for buying and selling by weight or measure. Upwards of seventy things very necessary to be known in various brances of business. A complete term table, with the returns. Distances of towns, villages, &c. upon the River Thames. Manner of producing colours by the mixture of colourless fluids. Ditto by coloured fluids. List of all the cities, towns, and villages in England, with their distances from London, and market-days. List of all the public-officers. List of Bankers. Account of the days and hours for transferring stock. Table shewing the bearing, distance, longest day, and differene of meridians of most of the principal cities in the world, from the city of London. Daily pay of each rank in His Majesty's land forces. Circuits of the judges. The economist; shewing how comfortably a family may live for a little money, also the cheapest way of keeping horses and carriages. Road from Boston to New-York, Phildelphia, Annapolis Maryland, Williamsburg, Virgina, Charles, Town South Carolina, through the country; likewise the names of the towns, forts &c. from the river St. Lawrence to the Missisippi. Weight of gold compared with other metals. Rational amusements, consisting of upwards of thirty curious experiments. A correct list of the two Houses of Parliament, with the officers belonging to each House. Prices of different comodities from the year 1000 to 1760, and a variety of other articles, which may be seen in the table of contents.

Publisher

London : Printed for G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-street, and sold by all the booksellers in twon and country, [1776]

Alternative title

Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger.

Date

[1776]

Record Identifier

74VK2xaxVXQX

MMS ID

991018181119702626

Language

English

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Physical content

192p. ; 8°.

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Publisher

London : Printed for G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-street, and sold by all the booksellers in twon and country, [1776]

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

[1776]

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

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Kearsly's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1776 [electronic resource] : Containing fifty two pages for accounts, bills due, appointments, and occasional memorandums, with a much greater variety of useful articles than are to be found in any other publication of this kind; particularly, list of holidays in the year 1775. Tables...

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Notes

General note

Pp.9-117 are unpaginated.

Price on title page: To be continued annually, price 1s 8d. bound in Red Leather, with pockets for notes.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Citation / References Note

ESTC T130842.

Additional physical form availability note

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

Reproduction note

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

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991018181119702626