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Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, a complete code of commercial law. Being a general guide to all men in business, Whether AS Traders, Remitters, Owners, Freighters, Captains, Insurers, Brokers, Factors, Supercargoes, OR Agents. With an account of our mercantile companies; of our colonies and factories abroad; of our Commercial Treaties with Foreign Powers; of the duty of consuls, and of the Laws concerning Aliens, Naturalization, and Denization. To Which IS Added, a sketch of the present state of the commerce o the whole world; describing the Manufactures and Products of each particular Nation; with Tables of the Correspondence and Agreement of their respective Coins, Weights, and Measures. Compiled from the works of the most celebrated British And Foreign Commercial writers. The whole equally calculated for the Information and Service of the Merchant, Lawyer, Member of Parliament, and private Gentleman. By the late Wyndham Beawes, Esq; His Britannick Majesty's Consul at Seville and St. Lucar. The fifth edition, considerably enlarged, and improved, by Thomas Mortimer, Esq; Formerly his Majesty's Vice Consul at Ostend.
Beawes, Wyndham.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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A new and compendious treatise of arithmetick, in whole numbers and fractions, vulgar and decimal. Wherein all the Necessary Rules of this Science are laid down in the Plainest and most Familiar Terms, and the Reason and Foundation of them demonstrated. With a Large and Copious Appendix, Containing several useful Tables of Monies, Weights, and Measures; as likewise a great Variety of Instructive and Entertaining Questions, relating to all the different Branches of this Art: Intermix'd with familiar Directions, and many curious Remarks. The Whole being Design'd and Compos'd not only with a View of advancing the Young Students in the Practice of this Fundamental Part of the Mathematicks, but also for the Information of those who are desirous of being thoroughly skill'd in the Theory and Principles of it. By Thomas Weston, Late Master of the Academy at Greenwich.
Weston, Thomas, Master of the Academy at Greenwich.Date: M,DCC,XXXVI. [1736]- Books
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The general shop book: or, the tradesman's universal director. Being a most useful and necessary compendium to lie upon the counter of every shopkeeper, whether Wholesale or Retail, in Town or Country. Comprehending and Explaining The Domestic and Foreign Trade of Great Britain and the Plantations, whether carried on by Companies or private Persons; and the several Trades and Professions exercised at home; the various Commodities and Manufactures exported and imported to and from the different Countries of the World; the Course of Exchange, the Ballance of Trade, the Business of the Custom-House and Water-Side, Invoices, Entries, Insurances, Bottomree, Coins, Weights, Measures, &c. Likewise, The Distance of all the Market Towns in England, from London, their Fairs and Markets, the Inns where their Carriers and Coaches put up, and the Days they come in and go out. With a Map of the Roads, a Plan of London, a Chart of the Sea Coast, and many other useful Particulars.
Date: M,DCC,LIII. [1753]- Books
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Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, the merchant's directory. Being a compleat guide to all men in business, Whether AS Traders, Remitters, Owners, Freighters, Captains, Insurers, Brokers, Factors, Supercargoes, Agents. Containing an account of our trading companies and colonies, with their Establishments, and an Abstract of their Charters; the duty of consuls, and the Laws subsisting about Aliens, Naturalization and Denization. To Which IS Added a state of the present general traffick of the whole world, describing the Manufactures and Products of each particular Nation: And Tables of the Correspondence and Agreement of the European Coins, Weights, and Measures, with the Addition of all others that are known. Extracted fro the works of the best writers both at Home and Abroad; more especially from those justly celebrated ones of Messieurs Savary; improved and corrected by the author's own observations, during his long Continuance in Trade. The whole calculated for the Use and Service of the Merchant, Lawyer, Senator, and Gentleman. By Wyndham Beawes, Merchant.
Beawes, Wyndham.Date: M.DCC.LIV. [1754]- Books
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The ready reckoner: or, trader's sure guide. Adapted to the use of all persons who buy or sell any sort of commodities, either in Wholesale or Retail. shewing At one View, by exact Tables ready cast up, the amount or value of any number or Quantity of goods or Merchandise, from one Farthing to Twenty Shillings, either by the Ounce, Pound, Yard, Ell, Hundred, Half-Hundred, or Quarter, &c. Likewise Shews Exactly, The Interest of any Sum of Money, at 4, 4 and 1/2, and 5 per Cent. From Ten Shillings to 3000 Pounds Sterling, and from one Day to a Year. As also, A Table of Commission or Brokerage, for 1/8, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4, 7/8, and 1 per Cent. To which are added, tables Shewing the Comparison betwixt English and Dutch Weights and Measures, with other Parts of Europe.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Piguenit's tables of money, weights, measures, &c.
Piguenit, C. D.Date: [1790?]- Books
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Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, the merchant's directory. Being a complete guide to all men in business, Whether AS Traders, Remitters, Owners, Freighters, Captains, Insurers, Brokers, Factors, Supercargoes, Agents. Containing an account of our trading companies and colonies, with their Establishments, and an Abstract of their Charters; the duty of consuls, and the Laws subsisting about Aliens, Naturalization and Denization. To Which IS Added a state of the present general traffick of the whole world; describing the Manufactures and Products of each particular Nation: And Tables of the Correspondence and Agreement of the European Coins, Weights, and Measures, with the Addition of all others that are known. Extracted fro the works of the best writers both at Home and Abroad; more especially from those justly celebrated ones of Messieurs Savary; improved and corrected by the author's own observations, during his long Continuance in Trade. The whole calculated for the Use and Service of the Merchant, Lawyer, Senator, and Gentleman. The second edition, with large additions. By Wyndham Beawes, Esq; His Britannick Majesty's Consul at Seville and St. Lucar.
Beawes, Wyndham.Date: M.DCC.LXI. [1761]- Books
Observations on medical weights and measures : with the method for their adjustment in the new British Pharmacopœia / by Charles Wilson.
Wilson, Charles.Date: 1859- Books
Outlines of the evolution of weights and measures and the metric system / by William Hallock...and Herbert T. Wade.
Hallock, William, 1857-1913.Date: 1906- Books
Historical metrology : a new analysis of the archaeological and the historical evidence relating to weights and measures / [Algernon Edward Berriman].
Berriman, Algernon Edward.Date: [1953]- Books
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The captains directory being translated extracts of the proclamation of the High & Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands relative to foreign ships trading to and from Holland. Also a list of the customs in Holland inwards & outwards; to which is added, A List of such Goods as are exempt from Premium; Goods subject to excise; List of Pile Dues, Weights, Measures, Tunnage, & Coins; Directions necessary to be Observ'd by Captains destin'd to the River of Bordeaux with the most Essential Extracts regarding the Pilots for the Mase and Goree, with a plan of the different Regulated Pilotages; the Cost of Ballast &c2. By T. M. English ships broker, at Rotterdam.
United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Generaal.Date: [1726?]- Books
A dictionary of English weights and measures : from Anglo-Saxon times to the nineteenth century / [Ronald Edward Zupko].
Zupko, Ronald Edward.Date: 1968- Archives and manuscripts
A table of chemical and alchemist symbols, and weights and measures
Date: Early 18th centuryReference: MS.MSL.69/4Part of: A Glossary and Pharmacopœia- Books
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A handbook for the use of sealers of weights and measures / prepared by F. Feichmann, PH.D. for W. & L.E. Gurley.
Reichmann, F.Date: 1908- Books
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An act directing certain experiments to be made to ascertain uniform standards of weights and measures for the United States.
United States. Congress House.Date: [1796]- Books
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A museum for young gentlemen and ladies: or, a private tutor for little masters and misses. Containing a variety of useful subjects, and, in particular, I. Directions for Reading with Elegance and Propriety. II. The ancient and present State of Great-Britain; with a compendious History of England. III. An Account of the Solar System. IV. Historical and Geographical Description of the several Countries in the World; with the Manners, Customs, and Habits of the People. V. An Account of the Arts and Sciences. VI. Rules for Behaviour. Vii. Advice to young Persons on their entering upon the World; with short Rules of Religion and Morality. Viii. Tables of Weights and Measures. IX. Explanation of Abbreviations used in Words and Dates. X. The seven Wonders of the World. XI. Prospect and Description of the burning Mountain. XII. Dying Words and Behaviour of Great Men, when just quitting the Stage of Life; with many other useful Particulars, all in a plain familiar Way for Youth of both Sexes. With Letters, Tales, and Fables, for Amusement and Instruction; illustrated with Cuts.
Date: [1773]- Books
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Speeches in the House of Commons upon the equalization of the weights and measures of Great Britain; With notes, observations, &c. &c. also, a general standard proposed for the weights and measures of Europe: with brief abstracts of the most material acts of the British legislature, and other ordinances and regulations, for the equalization of our weights and measures from Magna Charta to the present time, &c. &c. By Sir John Riggs Miller, bart. Together with two letters from the Bishop of Autun to the author, upon the uniformity of weights and measures; the prelate's proposition, respecting, the same, to the National Assembly, and the decree of that body, of the 8th of May, conformable to the Bishop's proposition.-with English translations.
Miller, John Riggs, Sir, approximately 1744-1798.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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Tabular arithmetick; or, the universal companion. Containing Cxxix plain and easie tables of merchandise, ready Cast up in Pounds, Shillings, Pence and Farthings; from one Farthing, to Thirty Pounds the Yard, Foot, Pound, Ounce, or any other Denomination; and from one Yard, Foot, Pound, Ounce, &c. to 10000 of the like Species or Denominations. By which Tables, the meanest Capacity may easily resolve, most Questions pertaining to the Rules of Practice, tho' never so abstruse or intricate; also most Questions in Multiplication, Division, Reduction, the Rule of Three, Interest and Measuring, with many other things of material Consequence, both pleasant and profitable; the whole being applicable to all manner of Commodities, Weights and Measures whatsoever; therefore fit to be embrac'd by Merchants, Tradesmen, Dealers, &c. Calculated by John Brampton, Teacher of Writing, Arithmetick, and the Mathematicks, at Sutton St. Maries, in the Parts of Holland and County of Lincoln.
Brampton, John.Date: 1701- Books
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The laws and customs, rights, liberties, and privileges, of the City of London: containing. The several charters granted to the said city, from William the Conqueror to the present time; the Magistrates and Officers thereof, and their respective Creations, Elections, Rights, Duties, and Authorities; the Laws and Customs of the City, as the same relate to the Persons or Estates of the Citizens; the Nature, Jurisdiction, Practice and Proceedings of the several Courts in London; and the Acts of Parliament concerning the Cities of London and Westminster, alphabetically digested under the following Titles, viz. Administration, Aldermen, Aliens, Annoyance, Apothccaries, Appeals, Ashes, Attaines, Ballast, Barhers, Bawdy-House, Billingsgate, Black-Well-Hall, Brass, Brokers and Stockjobbers, Buildings, Butchers, Butter and Cheese, Carts, Chairs, Churches, Coaches, Coals, Conduits, Constables, Coopers, Cordwainers, Corn, Debts, Drapery, Election, Fish, Fuel, Garbling and Gauging, Gold and Goldsmiths, Gunpowder, Highways, Jury, Market, Oilmen, Painters and Plaisterers, Pavement, Physicians, Quo Warranto, Recognizances, Sewers, Stockjobbers, Streets, Tithes, Victuallers, Water, Watermen, Weights and Measures, and Wine.
Corporation of London.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, a complete code of commercial law. Being a general guide to all men in business; Whether as Traders, Remitters, Owners, Freighters, Captains, Insurers, Brokers, Factors, Super Cargoes, or Agents. With an account of our mercantile companies; our colonies and factories abroad; our commercial treaties with foreign powers; the duty of consuls, and of the laws concerning aliens, naturalization, and denization. To which is added, a sketch of the Present state of the commerce of the whole world; describing the Manufactures and Products of each particular Nation; with Tables of Correspondence, and Agreement of their respective Coins, Weights and Measures. also the Net Import Duties Payable in Ireland; And Duties on Goods, Wares and Merchandize, Imported into the United States of America. Compiled from the works of the most celebrated British and foreign commercial writers. The Whole equally calculated for the Information and Service of the Merchant, Lawyer, Member of Parliament, and private Gentleman. By the late Wyndham Beawes, Esq. His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Seville and St. Lucar. The sixth edition, considerably enlarged and improved, by Thomas Mortimer, Esq. Formerly his Majesty's Vice-Consul at Ostend. In two volumes. ...
Beawes, Wyndham.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations / [Anon].
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.Date: 1727- Books
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Measures, weights, & moneys of all nations : and an analysis of the Christian, Hebrew, and Mahometan calendars / by W.S.B. Woolhouse.
Woolhouse, W. S. B. (Wesley Stoker Barker), 1809-1893.Date: 1856- Books
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Moore's Almanack improved, or the farmer and countryman's calendar, for the year 1790. By the Rev. Dr. John Trusler, Compiler of the Clerical Almanack and Eight-Year Almanack; Author of Chronology, Practical Husbandey, several Books on Gardening, &c. Containing, (besides the Customary Contents of an Almanack,) The daily Face of the Moon. A Tide Table. On the New Planet. Changes of the Weather. Observ. on the Barometer. A Chronology of all Occurrences, since 1700. A Table to regulate Clocks. Different Weights & Measures. An alphabetical List of all Family Taxes. What is to be Jone every week in the Farm&garden. A Variety of useful Tables, and sundry other Matter. With Some New Experiments and Observations in Farming and Gardening. Being the fullest, cheapest and best printed Almanack extant. With a Calendarium, for the pocket, worth as much as the Almanack.
Trusler, John, 1735-1820.Date: [1790]- Books
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The young English scholar's complete pocket companion. In six parts. Selected from the best writers, divided into short lessons, and adapted to the capacities of children. Part I. A Compendious English Grammar. Part II. The History of the Kings of England, with the most remarkable Events of each Reign. Part III. Geography, in Four Parts; containing, First, The natural Division of the World in General;-Second, A Tour through Europe:-Third, The Counties of England, pointing out the most remarkable Curiosities;-Fourth, A Geographical Table of the principal Places in the known World, and their Situations Part IV. Chronology, containing an Account of the most remarkable Events, Discoveries, and learned Men, from the earliest Period to the present Time. Part V. The most useful Tables in Arithmetic, with the different Weights, Measures, &c. Part VI. An Alphabetical List of Foreign Coins, with their English Value. By R. Gentleman.
Gentleman, Robert, 1746-1795.Date: MDCCXCVII. [1797]- Books
A discourse of the Romane foot, and denarius: from whence, as from two principles, the measures and weights, used by the ancients, may be deduced / By John Greaves.
Greaves, John, 1602-1652.Date: 1647