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A letter to the Lord C-----t, in answer to some arguments lately advanced in favour of Mr. Wood's copper money. By a member of the Irish Parliament.
Member of the Irish Parliament.Date: 1724- Books
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A scheme of the money-matters of Ireland. In which the consequences of raising or lowering the coin, are impartially consider'd.
Browne, John, Sir.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
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Two-penny-worth of wit for a penny. Or, The bad husband turn'd thrifty : this man that wrought his own decay, and spent his money night and day; is turn'd to saving I do swear, there's few that with him can compare: and lves so civil in his ways, that all his neighbours give him praise, and does repent his wicked crime, and desires good fellows to turn in time; there's many a man runs himself clear out, when ale's in his head, then wit is out. To the tune of, Packingtons pound.
Date: [1685?]- Books
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A supplement to The complete English tradesman, Containing I. A warning against tradesmens borrowing money upon interest. II. A caution against that destructive practice of drawing and remitting, as also discounting promissory bills, meerly for a supply of cash. III. Direction for the trademan's accounts, with brief, but plain examples and specimens for book-keeping. IV. Of keeping a duplicate or pocket ledger in case of fire.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: M,DCC,XXVII. [1727]- Pictures
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A pack-horse carrying bribes is sent by Robert Walpole from Westminster to Edinburgh. Etching by Charles Mosley, 1740.
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770.Date: September 13 1740Reference: 576280i- Books
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A scheme of the money-matters of Ireland. In which the consequences of raising or lowering the coin, are impartially consider'd.
Browne, John, Sir.Date: 1729- Books
The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne : through Turky, into Persia and the East-Indies, for the space of forty years. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, viz. of the religion, government, customs, and commerce of every country; and the figures, weight, and value of the money currant all over Asia. To which is added, a new description of the seraglio / Made English by J. P. Added likewise, a voyage into the Indies, &c. By an English traveller, never before printed: Publish'd by Dr Daniel Cox.
Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689.Date: 1677-78- Books
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A new introduction to trade and business; very useful for young gentlemen and young ladies. Wherein is contained great variety of receipts for money, &c. Promissory Notes, Bills Of Exchange, Bills Of Parcels, And Bills ON Book-Debts. With ample instructions how to Form Them. Interspersed with Several Instructive Exercises, Week's Expences, Disbursements, Goods bought at Sales, &c. To which are added, I. A List of the most common Abbreviations of Words for the Dispatch of Business. II. Proper Forms of Address to Persons of High Rank, and those in Public Offices, &c. 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. A Mercantile Dictionary. VI The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece or Perpetual Almanac. Designed for the use of schools, and Youth in General.
Hudson, Peter.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Interest at one view, calculated to a farthing: at 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 per cent. For 1000 L. to 1 L. for 1 Day to 96 Days; and for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 Months. With Rules and Examples to cast up Interest at any Rate, by the said Tables. Also a Concise Table, whereby to cast up Salaries and Wages speedily, and others of great Use in receiving and paying of Money. The second edition, with additions. Carefully calculated and examined from the press, by Richard Hayes, Accomptant and Writing-Master, in Prince's-Street near the Bank of England. To which is added, a curious table whereby standard gold and silver, in bars, is compared with the courses of exchange between Amsterdam and London.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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Interest at one view, calculated to a farthing: At 3, 3 1/2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 per Cent. For 1000 L. to 1 L. for 1 Day to 96 Days; and for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Months. With Rules and Examples to cast up Interest at any Rate, by the said Tables. Also a Concise Table, whereby to cast up Salaries and Wages speedily, and others of great Use in receiving and paying of Money. The third edition, with additions. Carefully calculated and examined from the press, by Richard Hayes, Accomptant and Writing-Master in Prince's-Street, near the Bank of England. To which is added, A Curious Table whereby Standard Gold and Silver, in Bars, is compared with the Courses of Exchange between Amsterdam and London.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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Interest at one view, calculated to a farthing: At 2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 per Cent. For 1000£. to 1 £. for 1 Day to 96 Days; and for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 Months. With Rules and Examples to cast up Interest at any Rate, by the said Tables. With a curious Table, whereby Standard Gold and Silver, in Bars, is compared with the Courses of Exchange between Amsterdam and London. Also Tables for reducing the most common Gold Coins to Pounds, and the Contrary: Being very useful in receiving and paying Monies. The tenth edition, with additions. Carefully calculated and examined from the press, by Richard Hayes. To which is added, a concise table, whereby to cast up Salaries and Wages speedily. and others of great Use in-receiving and paying of Money.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
The truth about the drug companies : how they deceive us and what to do about it / Marcia Angell.
Angell, Marcia.Date: [2004], ©2004- Pictures
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Two merchants and a woman at a table; representing arithmetic. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
Schut, Cornelis, 1597-1655.Reference: 25770iPart of: Septem artes liberales- Books
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An appendix to Hayes's interest book. Shewing, by addition, how to cast up bank, India, South-Sea stock, Annuities, Royal and London Assurances, African, Million-Bank, York-Buildings, Charitable Corporation, English and Welsh Copper, Lottery Tickets, Blanks and Prizes, Premiums, Brokerage, Commissions, Discounts, Navy and Victualling Bills, &c. To which is added a table of great use to the proprietors of stocks, Annuities, and Bonds. Another of the like Service to the Buyers and Sellers of Annuities upon Lives. Also another for Annual Fonds. And, lastly, An Interest Table for India, South-Sea, York-Buildings, &c. L. 100 Bonds being done at Sight, at 3, 3 ?, and 4 per Cent. The whole being carefully calculated and examined from the press, by the author of Interest at one view, calculated to a farthing, &c.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Pictures
Mrs Billington the singer being spoon-fed money by Lewis and Sheridan; showing the incentives offered by those competing for her services. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1802.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 16 January 1802Reference: 11635i- Books
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Sir H. Mackworth's proposal in miniature, as it has been put in practice in New-York, in America.
Mackworth, Humphrey, Sir, 1657-1727.Date: 1720- Books
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The negociator's magazine: or, The exchanges anatomiz'd. In two parts. Part I. Shewing the different species and denominations of the moneys, and the meaning of the agio's practised in foreign states, together with the current prices of the exchanges, and the method to calculate them for most places traffick in Europe. Part II. Containing plain instructions concerning bills of exchange, wherein is shewn what method to take in most cases that can happen in the usual transactions and occurrences of trade. The second edition. By Richard Hayes, profess'd accomptant and writing-master.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: 1726- Books
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Interest at one view, calculated to a farthing: At 2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 per Cent. For 1000 £. to 1£. for 1 Day to 96 Days; and for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 Months. With Rules and Examples to cast up Interest at any Rate, by the said Tables. With a curious Table, whereby Standard Gold and Silver, in Bars, is compared with the Courses of Exchange between Amsterdam and London. Also Tables for reducing the most common Gold Coins to Pounds, and the Contrary: Being very useful in receiving and paying Monies. The sixth edition, with additions. Carefully calculated and examined from the press, by Richard Hayes. To which is added, a concise table, whereby to cast up Salaries and Wages speedily, and others of great Use in receiving and paying of Money
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
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Interest at one view, calculated to a farthing: At 2 1/2, 3,3 1/2, 4,5,6,7, and 8 per cent. For 1000 Đ. to 1 Đ. for 1 day to 96 days; and for 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11, and 12 months. With rules and examples to cast up interest at any rate, by the said tables. With a curious table, whereby standard gold and silver, in bars, is compared with the courses of exchange between Amsterdam and London. Also tables for reducing the most common gold coins to pounds, and the contarary: being very useful in receiving and paying monies. The eighth edition, with additions. Carefully calculated and examined from the press, by Richard Hayes. To which is added, a concise table, whereby to cast up salaries and wages speedily, and others of great use in receiving and paying of money.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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Interest at one view, calculated to a farthing: at 2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 per cent. For 1000 -. to 1 -. for 1 Day to 96 Days; and for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 Months. With Rules and Examples to cast up Interest at any Rate, by the said Tables. With a curious Table, whereby Standard Gold and Silver, in Bars, is compared with the Courses of Exchange between Amsterdam and London. Also Tables for reducing the most common Gold Coins to Pounds, and the Contrary: Being very useful in receiving and paying Monies. The seventh edition, with additions. Carefully calculated and examined from the press, by Richard Hayes. To which is added, a concise table, whereby to cast up salaries and wages speedily, and others of great Use in receiving and paying of Money.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- Books
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The negociator's magazine of monies and exchanges. In three parts. Part I. Contains advice and instructions, relating to Bills of Exchange, the Monies of one Country compared with another; the way to know what one Country gets of another at any Time by the Exchange; as also, an Account of the English Gold and Silver Coins, the Weights and Fineness, and the several Alterations they have undergone for near 500 Years past, with their present Standards and Weights at this Time. Part II. Shews the real and imaginary monies, the current Prices of the Exchanges; and the Method to calculate them for most Places in Europe, with the Distinctions of Bank and current Money, and the ways of casting up the Agio's, &c. Part III. Contains arbitrations of the exchanges, and that Universal Rule made use of by Merchants and Negociators in all their Reductions and Calculations, both in the Exchanges of Monies, and Reduction of Weights and Measures of different Countries; as also, how Exchange is reckoned; of Brokerage and Provision, with useful Observations upon the Prices or Courses of the Exchange. By Richard Hayes, Author of the New Method for valuing Annuities upon Lives, &c. And Teacher of Merchant Accounts, at the Corner of Princes Street, facing Stocks Market.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Pictures
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A woman beleaguered by four enemies; representing Faith resisting Death, Schism, the World and the Devil. Engraving by Hieronymus Wierix after Maarten de Vos, 156-.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Date: [between 1560 and 1569?]Reference: 26754i- Books
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Sports and pastime: or, Hocus-Pocus improv'd. Shewing, 1. To turn water into wine. 2. To convey a card out of a nut-shell. 3. To catch birds. 4. To take Eels. 5. To make sport with an Egg 6. To fetch a Shilling out of a Handkerchief. 7. To wring Beer out of the Handle of a Knife. 8. Tricks with Tobacco-Pipes. 9. To win at Racing. 10. To know Cross or Pile by the Sound of Money. 11. To wrap one's Knuckles. 12. To make you laugh till the Tears stand in your Eyes. 13. To fox Fish. 14. A Philosoph-Experiment: 15. To cure the Tooth-Ach. 16. To bring 2 Pieces together 17. To win a Wager by feeling, 18. To take Conies. 19. To catch Wild-Ducks. 20. Sport with a Maid. 21. To make Liquor boil out of a Pot. 22. To prevent frothing Pots. 23. To Hatch-Chickens without a Hen. 24. Make it freeze by the Fire. 25. To take a String off a Pipe 26. To make good Sport. 27. To strike Chalks through a Table. 28. To convey Money away. 29. To play the wag with a Servant-Maid. 30. To make Sport with Bells. 31. Meat to seem Magotty. 32. To write invisible. 33. To cut the Blowing-Book. 34. To Engrave 35. The Egg-Box. 36. The Melting-Box. 37. The Globe-Box. 38. To cut Cloth, and make it whole again. 39. To make a Knife leap out of a Pot. 40. To take Buttons off a string 41. To cut Glass. 42. The Mosaick Rod. 43. To draw an Egg through a Ring. 44. To put Pease in your Eye. 45. Harts-Horn to make grow. 46. To write in a Dark-Night. 47. To walk on a hot Iron. 48. To eat Fire. 49. A Room to seem on fire. 50. To have a Sallad grow while the Meat roasts. 51. An Egg to fly in the air. 52. A sheet of paper call'd trouble-wit. With divers other legerdemain curiosities.
Date: [1705?]- Books
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The benefits which arise to a trading people from navigable rivers. To which are added, some considerations on the origin of loughs and bogs; and a scheme, for the establishment of a company, to make the river Shannon navigable, humbly offered to the publick. By John Browne, Esq; author of the seasonable remarks, of the essay upon trade, of the scheme of the money-matters of Ireland, and of several other pamphlets, upon the affairs of this country.
Browne, John, Sir.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Ephemera
Biography ephemera. Box 2, J-Q.