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Kearsly's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1781: Containing A much greater number of useful articles than any other annual publication; particularly, Fifty-Two ruled pages for Accounts. A Term Table, with the Returns. A table of wages and expences by the day, week, month, and year. A table for computing daily expences, servants wages, rent, annuities, &c. for any time. Tables for buying and selling by weight. Tables of Interest. Bankers in London. Various useful tables of weights, measures, time, &c. &c. An exact account of the days and hours for buying and accepting or selling and transferring the several stocks, or government securities, and receiving the interest or dividends due thereon, at the Bank, India-House, and South-Sea-House. List of public offices, with their hours of doing business A plain and easy method of measuring any piece of timber, or brick-work; also how to guage any cask, or measure a piece of ground. The distances from the various ports both on the English and French coasts, drawn out in leagues as near as can be ascertained Military instructions, highly interesting at this juncture, when the whole kingdom seems changing its civil into a martial appearance. A succinct account of the heathen gods and goddesses, heroes, heroines, &c. forming a complete pocket Pantheon. The house of Peers in alphabetical order. Sixteen Peers of Scotland. Clerks and officers of both houses of Parliament. A complete list of Members returned for the new Parliament. List of Members of the last Parliament who are not in the present. List of the new Peers created last summer, &c. &c. For the whole Contents, see the two next pages.
Kearsley, George, -1790.Date: [1781]- 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; and for reducing sterling money into currency at sundry rates; with tables of interest and rebate, and of the value of gold and silver in Virginia: also tables shewing the amount of any quantity of goods at almost any per cent. advance on the prime cost, and for finding the nett duties on tobacco from one pound to fifty thousand pounds. To which is added, some tables of per cents. on transfer notes, the whole applied throughout to trade and merchandize. By Robert Biscoe, of Lancaster County.
Biscoe, Robert, -1747.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- 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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The ready reckoner; or Trader's most useful assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of commodities either wholesale or retail. Shewing at one view the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandise from one farthing to twenty shillings, either by th long or short hundred, half hundred or quarter, pound or ounce, ell or yard, &c. &c. In so plain and easy a manner, that persons quite unacquainted with arithmetic may hereby ascertain the value of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells or yards, &c. at any price whatever: and to the most ready in figures, it will be equally useful by saving much time in casting up what is here correctly done to their hand. By Daniel Fenning,[.]
Fenning, Daniel.Date: 1774- Books
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The merchant and trader's daily companion. Containing exact and useful tables, shewing the value of any quantity of goods or wares, ready cast up, more adapted to Merchants Use, than any other extant. Calculated by an ingenious accomptant. To Which Are Prefixed, A Table of Guineas and Half Guineas, from 1, 1 and 1/2, 2, 2 and 1/2, and so on progressively to 250 and 1/2 inclusive. Together With A Table Of The Number Of Yards. In The Several Scores Of Linen. From 1, To 150. These Last Calculated Originally, and the whole book cast up in manuscript, and corrected at the press, by John Watson, bookseller. The twelfth edition.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: 1799- Books
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A mathematical compendium; or, useful practices in arithmetick, geometry, and astronomy, geography and navigation, embattelling, and quartering of armies, fortification and gunnery, gauging and dyalling, etc. Explaining the logarithms, with new indices; Nepair's rods or bones; making of movements, and the application of pendulums; with the projections of the sphere for an universal dyal, &c / [Sir Jonas Moore].
Moore, Jonas, Sir, 1617-1679.Date: 1705- Books
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The merchant and trader's daily companion. Containing exact and useful tables, shewing the value of any quantity of goods or wares, ready cast up, ... Calculated by an ingenious accomptant. ... the whole book cast up in manuscript, and corrected at the press, by John Watson, bookseller.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: 1790 [1791]- Books
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The merchant and trader's daily-companion. Containing exact and useful tables, shewing the value of any quantity of goods or wares ready cast up, more adapted to Merchants Use, than any other extant. Calculated by an ingenious accomptant to which are prefixed, the new table of coin, as the same was made current by the Lords Justices Proclamation, since the 8th day of July, 1751: and a table of the number of yards in the several scores of linen, from 1 to 150. These last Calculated originally, and the whole Book Cast up in Manuscript, and carefully Corrected.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: 1763- Books
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Comes commercii: or, the trader's companion. ... To which is added, a supplement concerning simple and compound interest, ... The second edition. By Edw. Hatton, gent.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: 1706- Books
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The irish comes commercii, or trader's-companion. Containing I. Exact and Useful Tables, shewing the Value of any Quantity of Goods or Wares ready cast up, more adapted to Merchants Use, than any other extant. Calculated by Edward Hatton, Gent. II. Tables of Exchange. In two Parts. I. English Money Exchanged into Irish. 2. Irish Money Exchanged into English. Each by Addition only, for any Sum from 300 Pounds to I Penny, and at the several Rates, whether Quarters or Eighths, from Five per Cent. to Eleven per Cent. III. Tables of Commission at the several Rates mostly used in Ireland. IV. An Index to Interest. Containing Tables of Simple Interest, at 5, 6, and 7 per Cent. from 1 Day to 30 Days, and for 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 Days, and 1 Year. By E. Hatton, Gent. Together with Tables of Interest at the same Rates, for 3, 6 and 9 Months. To all which is prefixed, The New Table of Coin, as the same was made current by the Lords Justices Proclamation from the 8th Day of July, 1751. Together with a Table of the Number of Yards in the several Scores of Linen, from 1 to 150. The Tables of Exchange, Commission, and Coin Calculated originally: All the other Tables cast up in Manuscript, and the whole work corrected at the press, by John Watson, Bookseller.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: M,DCC,LII. [1752]- Books
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The corn dealer's assistant: consisting of tables ready calculated, to shew at one view, the amount of any quantity of grain, from one quarter to 500, and so on; at all the various prices, from 5 Shillings to 4 l. per Quarter, advancing by 3 d. to which is added, one Table to shew what any Quantity of Grain amounts to, from 1 Quarter to 500, from one Halfpenny to two Pence Halfpenny, very useful for Farmers, Corn Factors, Brewers, Distillers, Malsters &c. Calculated and Re-Examined from the Press, by John Hewitt, Profess'd Accomptant, Author of the Tables upon Simple Interest, &c.
Hewitt, John.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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Comes commercii, or, the trader's-companion. ... To which is added, a supplement concerning simple and compound interest, ... By Edward Hatton, ...
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: 1759- Books
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The graziers ready reckoner, Or, A useful guide for buying and selling cattle, being a complete set of tables, distinctly pointing out the weight of black-cattle, sheep, or swine, from three to one hundred and thirty stones, by measurement; together with directions, shewing the particular parts where the cattle are to be measured. By George Renton, Berwickshire farmer.
Renton, George.Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]- Books
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Comes commercii: or, the trader's companion. ... To which is added, a supplement concerning simple and compound interest, ... The third edition. By Edw. Hatton, gent.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: 1716- 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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Comes commercii, or, the trader's companion. Containing I. An exact and useful table, shewing the value of any quantity of goods ... ready cast up, ... VIII. Concerning insuring ships, ... To which is added, a supplement concerning simple and compound interest, ... By Edward Hatton, gent.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: 1766]- Books
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The vade mecum for America: or A companion for traders and travellers: containing I. An exact and useful table, shewing the value of any quantity of any commodity, ready cast up, from one yard or pound to ten thousand. II. A table of simple and compound interest. III. Th names of the towns, and counties in the several provinces and colonies of New-England, New-York, and the Jersies; as also the several counties in Pensilvania [sic], Maryland and Virginia: together with the time of the setting of their courts. IV. The time of the general meetings of the Baptists an Quakers. V. A description of the principal roads from the mouth of Kennebeck-River in the north-east of New England, to James-River in Virginia. VI. A correct table of the kings and queens of England, from Egbert the 1st King of England to His Present Majesty King George II. Together with several other instructive tables in arithmetick, geography &c. To which is added, the names of the streets in Boston. Collected & composed with great care & accuracy.
Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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A new and universal practice of mercantile arithmetick: in which, what has hitherto appear'd obscure, is explain'd by such easie and familiar Rules, that the Learner may, without any other Help, arrive to a perfect Understanding of every thing that is necessary to be known in Trade: And particularly all the different Methods used in England, France and Holland. All which being perform'd without the Help of the Aliquot Parts, the Operations are thereby much Abridg'd. The whole applied to the Exchanges, Weights and Measures of all the Considerable Towns of Trade in Europe, by many Curious and Useful Operations and Calculations. In two parts. Written in French by the Sieur Monier de Claire-Combe, and done into English with his approbation.
Monier de Clairecombe, Jean.Date: 1707- Archives and manuscripts
Hospital ready reckoner arithmetical tables
Date: 1958Reference: RAMC/1976/1Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
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Interest tables, at Three, Three and a half, Four, Four and a half, and Five per Cent. By which The Interest of any Sum less than a Million, for any Time less than Eight Years, may be readily calculated. To which are added, Concise Methods for finding Interest, Commission and Brokerage, by the Pen.
Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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Tables for renewing and purchasing of leases. As also for renewing and purchasing of lives. With other necessary tables for computing of interest, either simple or compound. By Gael Morris.
Morris, Gael.Date: 1735- Books
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The distiller's vade-mecum: being a complete set of tables, exhibiting at one view the exact weight of spirituous liquors; From the lowest Quality to Alcohol, for any Number of Gallons, from 50 to 252, or One Ton. Together with Some useful Rules for calculating the different Strengths of Spirits, In the most simple and correct Manner, by the Pen. Adapted to Clarke's Hydrometer. To which is Added, a Table, shewing the Weight of Vinecar. Also, A very useful Table, shewing the Value of One Gallon of Spirits of any proposed Strength; corresponding with the comparative Value of One Gallon of any other Strength. By Joseph Atlay.
Atlay, Joseph.Date: 1792- Books
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Memorial verses on the ecclesiastical and civil calender : with an epitome of the heavenly motions. By Thomas Streete student in astronomy and mathematicks. Imprimatur, ex Ædibus Lamb. Jul. 16. 1666. Tho. Cooke, reverendissimo in Christo patri & D. Gilberto Archiepiscopo cant. sacellanus domesticus.
Streete, ThomasDate: 1667- 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 Mechanicks: 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, 6/8, 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. Fifteenth edition. By William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: [1769]