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The trader's pocket companion [electronic resource] : containing, correct tables, ready calculated,...

The trader's pocket companion [electronic resource] : containing, correct tables, ready calculated,...

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The trader's pocket companion [electronic resource] : containing, correct tables, ready calculated, of universal use to merchants, shopkeepers, mechanicks, and to all other persons in any kind of business, viz. A Table calculated to shew, at one View, the Value of any Quantity of Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, at any Price, adapted to all Capacities; and its particular, general, and extensive Use, shewn by many and various Examples. A Table of universal Use, demonstrated by the Solution of various Questions in Multiplication, Division, Reduction, Merchandising, measuring Superficies and Solids, Gauging, Surveying, &c. Twenty-Five Geometrical Problems, with their assigned Figures, applied to Measuring, Gauging, Surveying, &c. A Table calculated to discover, at one View, the different Discompts upon any of the Branches of the Customs, upon imported Goods, from one Farthing upwards. A Table for the more easy reckoning Salaries or Wages, by discovering, at one View, what any yearly Salary, Wages, or Estate, amounts to by the Month, Week, or Day; and, contrary, what any daily Salary amounts to by the Week, Month, or Year. A Table for casting up Interest at any Rate, for any Number of Days. By John Hewitt, Accomptant, Author of the Tables of Simple Interest, Corn-Dealer's Assistant, &c.

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The trader's pocket companion [electronic resource] : containing, correct tables, ready calculated, of universal use to merchants, shopkeepers, mechanicks, and to all other persons in any kind of business, viz. A Table calculated to shew, at one View, the Value of any Quantity of Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, at any Price, adapted to all Capacities; and its particular, general, and extensive Use, shewn by many and various Examples. A Table of universal Use, demonstrated by the Solution of various Questions in Multiplication, Division, Reduction, Merchandising, measuring Superficies and Solids, Gauging, Surveying, &c. Twenty-Five Geometrical Problems, with their assigned Figures, applied to Measuring, Gauging, Surveying, &c. A Table calculated to discover, at one View, the different Discompts upon any of the Branches of the Customs, upon imported Goods, from one Farthing upwards. A Table for the more easy reckoning Salaries or Wages, by discovering, at one View, what any yearly Salary, Wages, or Estate, amounts to by the Month, Week, or Day; and, contrary, what any daily Salary amounts to by the Week, Month, or Year. A Table for casting up Interest at any Rate, for any Number of Days. By John Hewitt, Accomptant, Author of the Tables of Simple Interest, Corn-Dealer's Assistant, &c.

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London : printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, G. Keith, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, S. Crowder and Co. B. Law and Co. C. and R. Ware, J. Fox, T. Hope, and E. Withers, 1760.

Date

1760.

Record Identifier

74VvrE4qaP83

MMS ID

991011362699702626

Language

English

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[162]p. ; 12°.

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Publisher

London : printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, G. Keith, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, S. Crowder and Co. B. Law and Co. C. and R. Ware, J. Fox, T. Hope, and E. Withers, 1760.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1760.

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

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The trader's pocket companion [electronic resource] : containing, correct tables, ready calculated, of universal use to merchants, shopkeepers, mechanicks, and to all other persons in any kind of business, viz. A Table calculated to shew, at one View, the Value of any Quantity of Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, at any Price, adapted to all Capacities...

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Notes

General note

Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".

Citation / References Note

ESTC N54639.

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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74VvrE4qaP83

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvrE4qaP83

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MMS ID

991011362699702626