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The new universal ready reckoner; or Every trader's infallible guide [electronic resource] : Contain...

The new universal ready reckoner; or Every trader's infallible guide [electronic resource] : Contain...

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The new universal ready reckoner; or Every trader's infallible guide [electronic resource] : Containing, new and complete tables, most carefully cast up, and exhibiting at one point of view the value or amount of any quantity of goods in trade or merchandise, from one farthing to twenty shillings, not only by the pound, ounce, yard, ell, &c. but also by the long or short hundred, half hundred, &c. The whole so calculated, to assist in buying and selling all kinds of commodities, both wholesale and retail, as to be of the greatest use even to those who are acquainted with figures by saving considerable time, the various tables being so accurately executed, that they may with the utmost safety be relied on: and to those who are entirely unacquainted with arithmetic, such plain and easy directions are said down, as cannot fail of making this useful book familiar to every capacity; whereby may be ascertained the exact amount of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells, yards, &c. whatever may be the price. To which are added, a valuable catalogue of weights, measures, &c. and tables for casting-up wages, by the day, week, month and year. By John Bettesworth, master of the mathematical and naval Academy, Chelsca; and author of The New tables of interest; English grammar epitomized; arithmetic made easy, &c.

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The new universal ready reckoner; or Every trader's infallible guide [electronic resource] : Containing, new and complete tables, most carefully cast up, and exhibiting at one point of view the value or amount of any quantity of goods in trade or merchandise, from one farthing to twenty shillings, not only by the pound, ounce, yard, ell, &c. but also by the long or short hundred, half hundred, &c. The whole so calculated, to assist in buying and selling all kinds of commodities, both wholesale and retail, as to be of the greatest use even to those who are acquainted with figures by saving considerable time, the various tables being so accurately executed, that they may with the utmost safety be relied on: and to those who are entirely unacquainted with arithmetic, such plain and easy directions are said down, as cannot fail of making this useful book familiar to every capacity; whereby may be ascertained the exact amount of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells, yards, &c. whatever may be the price. To which are added, a valuable catalogue of weights, measures, &c. and tables for casting-up wages, by the day, week, month and year. By John Bettesworth, master of the mathematical and naval Academy, Chelsca; and author of The New tables of interest; English grammar epitomized; arithmetic made easy, &c.

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London : Printed for Alex. Hogg, No. 16, Pater-Noster-Row, [1778?]

Date

[1778?]

Record Identifier

74VKDbmK2A2Z

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991019093329702626

Language

English

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[208]p.,plate ; 16°.

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Publisher

London : Printed for Alex. Hogg, No. 16, Pater-Noster-Row, [1778?]

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

[1778?]

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

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The new universal ready reckoner; or Every trader's infallible guide [electronic resource] : Containing, new and complete tables, most carefully cast up, and exhibiting at one point of view the value or amount of any quantity of goods in trade or merchandise, from one farthing to twenty shillings, not only by the pound, ounce, yard, ell, &c. but al...

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Price in square brackets: (Embellished with an elegant Frontispiece, Price bound only 1s.)

Reproduction of original from British Library.

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ESTC T226732.

Additional physical form availability note

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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74VKDbmK2A2Z

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MMS ID

991019093329702626