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Table books
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Garnsey's new wine tables; to be had of the calculator, (no 91) Aldersgate-Street, London.
Garnsey.Date: 1797- Books
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A ready numberer; or, the cotton spinner's calculator: a table, Calculated to afford greater assistance, than any hitherto published, to Cotton Manufacturers, particularly those in The Spinning Branch. Shewing the number of hanks required on a set, of a bundle, to make the yarn any such number, from 11 hanks in one pound, up to 210. Exhibited upon a simple construction, as shall be fully explained hercaster. There is, on every page, to render this work still more serviceable, a narrow column, that shews the amount of the weight inserted on the same, under (and a little above) eight shillings and six pence per 1b. To which also is annexed, a wrapping table; OR, A Table computing the length of a whole set, by the length of one cop. Including nine different sizes of Jennies, and nineteen Mules, from 144 spindles, taking all regular sizes (i. e. 12 to be the common difference) up to 360. By Thomas Jones, Evan Evans, and John Thornton, Cotton Spinners.
Jones, Thomas, active 1798.Date: 1798- Books
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The trader's pocket companion: 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.
Hewitt, John.Date: 1760- Books
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The merchant's magazine; or, factor's guide. Containing, great variety of plain and easy tables for the speedy casting up of all sorts of merchandize, sold either by Number, Weight or Measure; Also Tables shewing the Amount of any Quantity of Goods at almost any per Cent Advance on the prime Cost, More Particularly For reducing Sterling Money into Currency at sundry Rates in Virginia, With Tables of Interest and Rebate, and of the Value of Gold and Silver there, And For finding the Nett Duties on Tobacco, from 1 Pound to 50,000 Pounds. To which is added, Some Tables of per Cents on Transfer-Notes; the whole throughout applied to trade and merchandize. By R. B. merchant.
R. B., Merchant.Date: 1743- Books
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Tables for reducing lunar observations, and obviating the difficulties in finding the longitude, by William Garrard, Master of the Naval Academy, Ormond House, Paradise Row, Chelsea; and Late of the Royal Navy.
Garrard, William, active 1781-1808.Date: M,DCC,XCIX. [1799]