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Tables of simple interest at 6 per cent, from one day to 365; and from thence to 16 Years and ?. Rebate or Discompt at 6 per Cent Simple Interest, from one Month to 36: also, tables of compound-interest, whereby the Amount, or present Value of any Sum of Money, or any Annuity, or Lease, either in Possession, or Reversion, from one Year to 61, at 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. and 10 per Cent, is exactly Calculated to the Hundredth part of a Penny. To which is added, general rules in estimating the true value of free-hold estates, Annuities and Insurance for Lives. By Thomas Langham of London Broker.
Langham, Thomas, Broker.Date: [1710?]- 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, mercers, bankers, drapers, goldsmiths, grocers, brewers, weavers, and haberdashers. And those who deal by wholesale, or retail. Also for carpenters, bricklayers, joyners, glaziers, plaisterers, plummers, corn-dealers, painters, &c. &c. And all other mechanics: as, likewise for all purchasers of houses or lands: shewing the interest of money, at 3, 3 and 1/2, 4, and 5 pounds per cent.-From one shilling to 1000 pounds:-and from one day to one year. To which is added, a table of commission, or brokage, for 1/8, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4, 7/8, and 1 per cent. With tables directing how to buy and sell by the hundred: and to cast up expences by the day, week, month, and year. With a calculation of Portugal coin. A new edition, carefully corrected and enlarged. By William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1776- Books
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Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1783. Containing Fifty-Two Ruled Pages for Receipts and Payments; also Spaces for Memorandums for every Day in the Year. The two Houses of Parliament, with an English Translation of the Mottos of the Peers. Abstracts of several Acts of Parliament passed last Sessions General Hints to Travellers. Stage - Coaches and Diligences of France, with their Hours of Setting out, and the Prices they charge; also the Time you are upon the Road. Price of Post Horses all over Europe. Account of the Money of the different Countries of Europe. General Table of Stamp Duties. Dividend and Transfer Days Instructions for doing Business at the different Offices of the Bank. Instructions for writing a Short-Hand. Term Table, with the Returns. Useful Maxims in Law. Tables of Wages, Salaries, and Incomes. List of Bankers. Tables for Buying and Selling by Weight or Measure. A Catalogue of Useful Things which every Man should be acquainted with. Interest Tables. Annuity Tables. Tables in Arithmetic, upon a new and concise Plan. And sundry other Articles, for which we refer the Reader to the Table of Contents.
Kearsley, George, -1790.Date: [1783]- Books
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The trader's assistant: containing I. Exact and useful tables, shewing the Value of any quantity of goods or wares, ready cast up, more adapted to the Merchant's use, than any other extant. II. Tables of Interest, shewing at one view, the Interest on any Sum of Money from L. 1 to L. 1000, at 4. 4 1-half, and 5 per cent. for any number of days. III. A Set of Tables, shewing the Exchange or Commission on Bills and Goods. IV. A Table, shewing the annual amount of Expences, Income, or Wages, from One Penny to Nine Pound per day. V. A Table reducing sundry pieces of Foreign current Coin, to British Money. VI. A Table reducing Scots Money to Sterling. Vii. A List of all the Fairs in Scotland. And Viii. A set of tables for mechanics, particularly weavers, in warping.
Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Tables of interest. For the use of bankers and others. By Thomas Smith, accomptant in Edinburgh.
Smith, Thomas, accomptant in Edinburgh.Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1796. containing One Hundred and Four ruled Pages for Receipts and Payments; with Spaces for Memorandums for every Day in the Year. Term Table. Holidays in 1796. Bankers of London. Hours of Transfer of Stock and receiving Interest thereon. Tables of Wages, Rent, Annuities, Expences, Interest, Buying and Selling, &c. &c. Rules for finding the Moveable Feasts and Holidays. American States, Local Description of, &c. Table shewing the Latitude and Longitude of the principal Towns in the United States and their Vicinity. London Agents for the Purchase of American Lands. American Banks. Consumption and Supply of Provisions in England. A Table of the Proportions, the Value of the different Funds bear each other. A new Table for the Time of High Water at a mean Rate. Abstracts of the most important Acts of Parliament which have passed in the 35th Year of the reign of Goerge III. viz. Hair-Powder. - Sweets. - Tea, Coffee, and Cocoa Nuts. - Wine. - Receipts-Benefit Societies. - Franking. - --Insurance. --Soldiers' Quarters. - Weights. Directions for the Management of Sheep. Of the Nature, Use and Choice of Swine. List of the Sovereigns of France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, and Prussia. Hackney-Coach Fares. An Alphabetical List of the House of Peers. An Alphabetical List of the House of Commons. And many other Articles equally useful, for which the Reader is referred to the Table of Contents.
Kearsley, George, active 1791-1813.Date: [1796]- Books
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The new universal ready reckoner; or Every trader's infallible guide: Containing, new and complete tables, most carefully cast up, and exhibiting at one point of view the value or amount of any quantity of goods in trade or merchandise, from one farthing to twenty shillings, not only by the pound, ounce, yard, ell, &c. but also by the long or short hundred, half hundred, &c. The whole so calculated, to assist in buying and selling all kinds of commodities, both wholesale and retail, as to be of the greatest use even to those who are acquainted with figures by saving considerable time, the various tables being so accurately executed, that they may with the utmost safety be relied on: and to those who are entirely unacquainted with arithmetic, such plain and easy directions are said down, as cannot fail of making this useful book familiar to every capacity; whereby may be ascertained the exact amount of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells, yards, &c. whatever may be the price. To which are added, a valuable catalogue of weights, measures, &c. and tables for casting-up wages, by the day, week, month and year. By John Bettesworth, master of the mathematical and naval Academy, Chelsca; and author of The New tables of interest; English grammar epitomized; arithmetic made easy, &c.
Bettesworth, John.Date: [1778?]- Books
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Collection of tables; Designed not only for the use of the officers of His Majesty's revenue of excise, but for all other traders, who are liable to excise duties. Upon a different plan from any before extant. Also tables of 5l. and 15l. per cent. with several other useful and necessary tables; by William Taylor, teacher of the mathematics, and land surveyor.
Taylor, William, teacher of the mathematics.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]