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Ready-reckoners - Early works to 1800
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The Federal or new ready reckoner, and traders useful assistant; in buying and selling all sorts of commodities, either wholesale or retail adapted to the federal money; shewing at one view the amount or value of any number of quantity of goods or merchandise, from half cent to one dollar and upwards either by weight or measure, together with interest tables &c. in so plain and easy a manner that persons quite unacquainted with arithmetic, may hereby ascertain the value in federal money, of any quantity of goods in weight or measure, at any price whatever.
Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The universal calculator; or the merchant's, tradesman's, and family's assistant. Being an entire, new, and complete set of tables, adapted for dealers in every branch of trade, by wholesale or retail, and all families, Shewing, at one View, The Amount or Value of any Number or Quantity of Goods or Merchandise, from One to Ten Thousand, at all the various Prices, from One Farthing, in regular progression, to Twenty Shillings. With I. Tables of Interest, from 1 Day to 30, and from 1 Month to 12-2. A Table, shewing the Number of Days from any Day in one Month to the same Day in any other. - 3. Tables of Commission or Brokerage, from 1/8 to 5 per Cent. To which are prefixed, I. A Table, shewing the Amount of any Salary, Income, &c. by the Day, Week, Month, or Year. - 2. A Table, for reducing English Bushels and Quarters to the Edinburgh Standard Corn Measure. - 3. An Entire New Set of Tables of the Different Weights and Measures, English and Scots, and such other Things as are necessary to be known in Different Branches of Business. A new edition. By John Thomson, Accomplant in Edinburgh, Author of the Tables of Interest, and Tables for Calculating the Price of Grain.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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Tables of interest, at 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. From 1 to 365 days, from 1 to 12 months, and from 1 to 10 years. Also, tables of exchange and commission, from 1/8 to 3 per cent. By John Thomson, Edinburgh.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Tables of [i]nterest, at 3, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. From ?.1 to ?.10,000, and from 1 to 365 days, in a regular progression of single days. With tables, at all the above rates, [f]rom 1 to 12 months, and from 1 to 10 years. Also, Tables, Shewing the Exchange on Bills, or Commission on Goods, &c. from ? to 5 per Cent. And Tables, shewing the Amount of any Salary, Income, Expence, &c. by the Day, Week, Month, or Year; and a new Table, ascertaining what Time a Sum of Money takes to double itself (or the Interest to become equal to the Principal), at all the different Rates of Interest. To Which Are Prefixed, A Table of Discount on Bills, at a certain number of Days or Months; and a Table shewing the exact number of Days from any Day throughout the Year to 31st December, the usual Period to which Interest on open Accounts is calculated. The sixth edition, with additions. By John Thomson, Accountant in Edinburgh, Author of the Universal Calculator, And Tables for Calculating the Prices of Grain.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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Panarithmologia: or, the trader's sure guide. Containing, exact, and useful tables ready cast up, adapted to the use of merchants, Bankers, Grocers, Weavers, and Haberdashers: And all that deal by Wholesale or Retale. Also, for Carpenters, Bricklayers, Joyners, Glaziers, Plasterers, Plummers, and Painters, And all other Mechanicks. As also, For all Purchasers of Houses or Lands: Shewing the Interest of Money, and Discount on prompt Payment. By William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1709