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Arithmetic - Commercial

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    A new introduction to trade and business; very useful for the youth of both sexes. Wherein is contained great variety of receipts for money, Goods, &c. promissory notes, bills of exchange, Bills Of AtParcels, And Bills ON Book - Debts. With ample instructions how to Form Them. Also Several Instructive Exercises; Disbursements; Week's Expences, Goods bought at Sales, &c. To which are added, I. Commercial and Epistolary Correspondence, exemplified in various Forms of Business, and Familiar Letters. II. A List of the most common Abbreviations of Words for the Dispatch of Business. III. Arithmetical Tables of Weights and Measures. IV. A new Set of Questions to exercise the Learner in several of the Rules of Arithmetic, by Way of Amusement, as well as Improvement. V. The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece or Perpetual Almanac. The fourth edition, corrected and improved, With the Addition of Copper Plates neatly Engraved. By Peter Hudson, Author of The New English Introduction to the Latin Tongue, The French Scholar's Guide, &c. And other School Masters. Designed for the use of schools, and Youth in General.

    Hudson, Peter. | Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]
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